When I did it, it gave me the standard CF error with MY ip address.

CF MX 7

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael T. Tangorre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 6:03 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: ColdFusion Security Holes - Best Practices

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> I heard a challenge from a security consultant that "if you 
> are using ColdFusion you do not have a secure server."  He 
> maintains that CF is full of things a hacker can access.  For 
> example he gave the following example.   If you attempt to 
> open a CF website with the following command it will generate 
> an error message that gives you the IP address of the CF server:
> sitename.org/*.cfm

First off, that is an ignorant statement. That security consultant needs a
little edumacation. 

> I tried this on a wide variety of sites and found that most 
> CF sites return the error with the IP address.  Some, however 
> appear to trap this error somehow.

With what IP Address? Yours?






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