title: How do you retrieve HTML from an external website into a variable in ColdFusion?
body: <p>In PHP there's a simple function called <code>file_get_contents</code>, and if I wanted to retrieve and display the HTML on, say, google.com, I would just do this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  $html = file_get_contents('http://www.google.com/');
  echo $html;
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there an equivalent to this in ColdFusion? Can you retrieve the output of an external site into a string variable (and then manipulate it accordingly)?</p>