Look at using CFBREAK in a conditional loop. You can find it's use in a loop
on page 887 of the CF Web Application Const. Kit, Second Edition by Forta.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lon Lentz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 8:34 AM
> To: cftalk
> Subject: How to stop an infinite CF loop?
>
>
>
>
> I had posted this question, in a slightly more vague way, a couple weeks
> ago. Well, the theoretical happened and I was wondering if anyone
> might have
> a solution to head off such future occurrences.
>
> It seems that a no-longer-here developer had written a template where in
> when conditions were met, a custom tag was called, and an email was
> generated. He had named his custom tag the same as the calling template.
> Well, the conditions were finally met, and in the end, some poor woman got
> 116,000 emails.
>
> So, with an example this time, is there a straight forward way
> of shutting
> this loop down? Possibly a way of setting up a template to do it? Someway
> other than shutting the service down? We ended up having to kill
> the service
> to stop it. We initially tried making changes to the template hoping to
> force it to error out...but the system had cached all of the pertinent
> information and was on cruise control.
>
>
>
> Lon Lentz
> Applications Developer - GetLists.Com
> DataWarehousing and List Sales - Market your lists on the Net!
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