title: How to Parse JSON Returned in ColdFusion
body: <p>I'm sure this is a relatively simple question, but I can't seem to find a simple answer anywhere online.</p>
  
  <p>I have a few lines of JSON returned by a cfhttp POST with an image URL that I'd like to parse out and display in my ColdFusion page:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
      "href": "http://server.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/directories/arcgisoutput/ESRI_StreetMap_World_2D_MapServer/_ags_map734a6ad322dd493e84499d78f027d841.png",
      "width": 854,
      "height": 493,
      "extent": {
          "xmin": -8285407.015562119,
          "ymin": 4944008.4197687358,
          "xmax": -8220129.7934066672,
          "ymax": 4981691.8747132765,
          "spatialReference": {
              "wkid": 102100,
              "latestWkid": 3857
          }
      },
      "scale": 288895.27714399656
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I make "href"'s value a part of a variable in ColdFusion, and/or potentially have a button linked to downloading it?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: I forgot to mention that I'm using ColdFusion MX - also known as version 6 - and hence why I cannot use the <a href="http://help.adobe.com/livedocs/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=functions_c-d_43.html" rel="nofollow">DeserializeJSON listed on Adobe's page</a></p>