Hi Guys! I have this strange problem: after running an Excel Web Query to a Cold Fusion template on a server, some browsers refuse to not cache certain pages on that server. First I mucked up my laptop, then I mucked up the Development Server, now the Production Server is mucked up. Thanks to my inattentiveness on the matter, some of our clients are logging on to our application from mult-user pcs and seeing the previous users personalization!
At first I was distracted by the way Excel cf authenticates - on our application a wddx cookie is set containing some personal information after a simple login. So I concentrated on getting the Excel Web Query to send the proper name and password. I successfully developed a custom tag that just needs to be placed where you want the link to show and creates an iqy file which automatically opens in Excel and sends all form and url data needed to query the same page you are on. The only thing Excel asks for is your password. Beautiful, huh? But, basking in my success, I am now able to see what happens on servers which many people are using. Couple of questions: 1) How do I find out what header info Excel is sending to my Cold Fusion server? I inserted the custom tag at the bottom of the developer's version of the site wide error handler, which just cf dumps all the structures that exist on the Cold Fusion server, and ran the web query to there, but I can't see any differences. The http user agent is Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461), but that isn't any different than the browser. Even the cf token and cf id are the same! 2) How do I get the browser cache on certain machines to work normally again? I have scads of no-cache header tags, uuids in my url, etc., my these are just work-arounds. The underlying problem still remains. Thanx Dave ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
