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I am using the following url:

http://api.wunderground.com/api//hist...

When I try it in the browser it works. When I try it using your coldfusion example code:

Current temperature in #location# is #temp_f#

I get an error:

JSON parsing failure at character 1:'C' in Connection Failure

Basically, it is returning connection failure rather than the json code

Grant Mckay

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Posted 7 years ago

7 years ago

Grant Mckay

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I added the following code in between the cfhttp tags:

And, that fixed this problem.

I found this fix here:
http://australiansearchengine.wordpre...

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7 years ago

Jeff Thompson

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If you're still having problems change the value of the "accept-encoding" header from deflate to *

I found the info here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/81...

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5 years ago

Bobby Z

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Hi,

I'm still getting the "JSON parsing failure at character 1:'C' in Connection Failure" error after adding the following 2 cfhttpparam tags to the request.

<cfhttpparam type="header" name="Accept-Encoding" value="*">
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="TE" value="deflate;q=0">

Any other suggestions?

By the way, I'm going a POST and not a GET.

Many thanks in advance.