Re: CF8 and CF9 on the same computer
Thanks to both of you. So my first and biggest problem was doing CF8 standalone it looks like. Guess it's time to get experience doing multi-server! ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327265 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Need CF8 OS X 32-bit installer
Does anybody have the CF8 32-bit installer that I could FTP from them? Apparently Adobe is no longer making this available (from http://forums.adobe.com/thread/502783?tstart=0) now that CF9 is out??!! Either way, I am stuck without a copy of the 32-bit OS X CF8 installer, so if anyone can bail me out here I'd greatly appreciate it. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327266 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
blocking site downloaders
Hey all, Every once in a while I'll notice in my logs that someone comes to one of my sites and hits thousands of pages in a short span and then leaves. This annoys me for a few reasons: (a) It's an unecessary tax on my server (and we all hate taxes) (b) It artificially inflates my page hits (c) What the hell are they doing? Scraping my pages and hosting them on some site? The current offending IP reverses to China. So, to avoid this, I'm considering the following: o Add a session variable that stores the last page view time down to the second. However, this may not work as the offending behavior is probably generated by a bot or desktop app that doesn't store session variables. o Review my databased logs for the current IP's last twenty page views. This may put an extra small hit on the server, but over all not as much as an extra 2200 page views in an hour every couple of weeks. If the requesting IP has requested more than twenty pages from the website in the current minute, I block the IP for a period of time, say, an hour or two. I have about a dozen sites running the same software, each with multiple thousands of pages (community sites, with 21,000 messages and I've posed this question a couple of times before on this list and it hasn't prompted any response. I will try again, hoping someone will either tell me I'm worrying too much, or that this is a smart idea. Thanks, Mik Michael Muller office (413) 863-6455 cell (413) 320-5336 skype: michaelBmuller http://MontagueWebWorks.com Information is not knowledge Knowlege is not wisdom Eschew Obfuscation ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327267 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
display wingding character code
Hi, we want to display a wingding character code 252 in coldfusion text, how can we do this? we looked into chr() and other methods but so far no luck thanks for your help richard ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327268 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: display wingding character code
cfoutputp style=font-family: Wingdings;#Chr(252)#/p/cfoutput ? On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Richard White rich...@j7is.co.uk wrote: Hi, we want to display a wingding character code 252 in coldfusion text, how can we do this? we looked into chr() and other methods but so far no luck thanks for your help richard ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327269 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: blocking site downloaders
some thoughts on the issue: 1) it may very well be a spider from a chinese search engine indexing your pages... i'll leave it up to you to decide if you want none of 1 billion chinese people to be able to find your site... in case it's a search spider, you can try adding appropriate robots.txt file and meta tags to prevent access to and indexing of pages you do not want accessed/indexed. you can also add rel=nofollow to any links you do not want followed by robots. of course, not all robots obey these rules - if this bot does not then you can consider banning it completely using the options you outlined. another impact of robots accessing your site is that your app will still try and create session vars for their sessions, filling your server memory with useless sessions. you can try to lessen this burden on your server by setting super-short session timeout for robots' sessions. irc, ben nadel had a good blog post on how to do this over on http://www.bennadel.com/. 2) However, this may not work as the offending behavior is probably generated by a bot or desktop app that doesn't store session variables. if you use j2ee sessions then session vars are in-memory only and are stored in server's memory, not on client;s computer... 3) This may put an extra small hit on the server, but over all not as much as an extra 2200 page views in an hour every couple of weeks. i think you may be wrong here... 2200 page requests once every couple of weeks seems like a less tax on your server than parsing your logs on every page request... but then it depends on how loaded your sites are... just some quick thoughts that i hope may help you... Azadi Saryev Sabai-dee.com http://www.sabai-dee.com/ On 16/10/2009 22:12, Michael Muller wrote: Hey all, Every once in a while I'll notice in my logs that someone comes to one of my sites and hits thousands of pages in a short span and then leaves. This annoys me for a few reasons: (a) It's an unecessary tax on my server (and we all hate taxes) (b) It artificially inflates my page hits (c) What the hell are they doing? Scraping my pages and hosting them on some site? The current offending IP reverses to China. So, to avoid this, I'm considering the following: o Add a session variable that stores the last page view time down to the second. However, this may not work as the offending behavior is probably generated by a bot or desktop app that doesn't store session variables. o Review my databased logs for the current IP's last twenty page views. This may put an extra small hit on the server, but over all not as much as an extra 2200 page views in an hour every couple of weeks. If the requesting IP has requested more than twenty pages from the website in the current minute, I block the IP for a period of time, say, an hour or two. I have about a dozen sites running the same software, each with multiple thousands of pages (community sites, with 21,000 messages and I've posed this question a couple of times before on this list and it hasn't prompted any response. I will try again, hoping someone will either tell me I'm worrying too much, or that this is a smart idea. Thanks, Mik Michael Muller office (413) 863-6455 cell (413) 320-5336 skype: michaelBmuller http://MontagueWebWorks.com Information is not knowledge Knowlege is not wisdom Eschew Obfuscation ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327270 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: blocking site downloaders
Is it a search engine robot? If so you could block it using robots.txt. What is the Web browser they are using? Do you have any customers in China? If not, you can block the entire country at the firewall level. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Michael Muller mich...@mullertech.com wrote: Hey all, Every once in a while I'll notice in my logs that someone comes to one of my sites and hits thousands of pages in a short span and then leaves. This annoys me for a few reasons: (a) It's an unecessary tax on my server (and we all hate taxes) (b) It artificially inflates my page hits (c) What the hell are they doing? Scraping my pages and hosting them on some site? The current offending IP reverses to China. So, to avoid this, I'm considering the following: o Add a session variable that stores the last page view time down to the second. However, this may not work as the offending behavior is probably generated by a bot or desktop app that doesn't store session variables. o Review my databased logs for the current IP's last twenty page views. This may put an extra small hit on the server, but over all not as much as an extra 2200 page views in an hour every couple of weeks. If the requesting IP has requested more than twenty pages from the website in the current minute, I block the IP for a period of time, say, an hour or two. I have about a dozen sites running the same software, each with multiple thousands of pages (community sites, with 21,000 messages and I've posed this question a couple of times before on this list and it hasn't prompted any response. I will try again, hoping someone will either tell me I'm worrying too much, or that this is a smart idea. Thanks, Mik Michael Muller office (413) 863-6455 cell (413) 320-5336 skype: michaelBmuller http://MontagueWebWorks.com Information is not knowledge Knowlege is not wisdom Eschew Obfuscation ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327271 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Need CF8 OS X 32-bit installer
sorry i can;t help you with the installer, but i just have to say this: rant so one can download cfmx7 (see sean corfiled's reply to your other thread from couple of days ago) and cf9, but not cf8? very strange... and definitely looks like adobe's screw-up... and if that comment attributed to adobe support staff on the thread on adobe cf forums - The support rep told me they are no longer allowing CF8 downloads. You can still purchase CF8 from a reseller (until CF10 is released), but you can't try it before you buy it. - is true, it just shows once again how ridiculous adobe support is at the moment. iirc, all cf installers (downloadable and on dvd) are the same - a trial/dev edition until you apply a license key. they are the same - standard or enterprise edition no matter. and even if they were different - what if i needed a cf8 dev edition to replicate my production environment on my dev machine? according to support rep one will have to buy cf8 now to do this? ridiculous! /rant Azadi Saryev Sabai-dee.com http://www.sabai-dee.com/ On 16/10/2009 21:31, Rob Barthle wrote: Does anybody have the CF8 32-bit installer that I could FTP from them? Apparently Adobe is no longer making this available (from http://forums.adobe.com/thread/502783?tstart=0) now that CF9 is out??!! Either way, I am stuck without a copy of the 32-bit OS X CF8 installer, so if anyone can bail me out here I'd greatly appreciate it. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327272 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Coldfusion Encrypt and Insert quotation mark issue
A couple of issues. Firstly, CFMX 7 introduced the encoding attribute to the encrypt function. For example, if you use hex encoding, then the string returned will always be made up of 0-9A-F. Secondly, the default CFMX_COMPAT algorithm you are using (by default) isn't all that secure. I suggest using a stronger algorithm. Lastly, if your systems get compromised to the point where encrypted passwords in your database are obtained, it's likely that your .cfm source file can also be accessed, which is where your encryption key is visible as plain text, thus allowing for quick and easy decryption of all the stored passwords. (BTW 0 isn't a very good key. It's not even a string. CF will interpet that as '0'.) One way to avoid this source file vulnerability is to use the password itself as the key and storing the resulting value. Then when testing a submitted password, simply repeat encrypting the provided password using itself as the key and compare() the resulting string stored in the database. The biggest problem with this system is that you can't retrieve a forgotten password, you can only reset it, but at least your passwords will be much more secure. Also, I'm assuming that your passwords aren't trying to protect information that's stored unencrypted in other database fields. If the encrypted password field is compromised, then you should assume that any database field can be compromised. Paul Cormier WinCorp Software, Inc. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327273 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: display wingding character code
Works in IE8, Chrome, but noe in Firefox. -Original Message- From: John M Bliss [mailto:bliss.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 7:38 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: display wingding character code cfoutputp style=font-family: Wingdings;#Chr(252)#/p/cfoutput ? On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Richard White rich...@j7is.co.uk wrote: Hi, we want to display a wingding character code 252 in coldfusion text, how can we do this? we looked into chr() and other methods but so far no luck thanks for your help richard ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327274 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: CF8 and CF9 on the same computer
Multi-server is *definitely* the way to go. But before you uninstall your standalone, be sure to create a CAR of all your settings. This way when you re-install in multi-server setup, all you do is import the CAR and you'll have all of your settings, datasources, mappings, etc in place. Oh, and to be sure, the initial multi-server install is stupid simple, thanks to the installer. :-) ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327275 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: display wingding character code
is there no way to place it in a normal string without having the p tag?. Works in IE8, Chrome, but noe in Firefox. cfoutputp style=font-family: Wingdings;#Chr(252)#/p/cfoutput ? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327276 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
count array element occurences
hi is there a way to count an array/list element occurences e.g. list=1,2,12,12 find occurences for '12' would return '2' thanks ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327277 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: display wingding character code
cfoutputspan style=font-family: Wingdings;#chr(252)#/span/cfoutput Don't know how it will display if the computer doesn't have the wingdings font though. Steve -Original Message- From: Richard White [mailto:rich...@j7is.co.uk] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 1:47 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: display wingding character code is there no way to place it in a normal string without having the p tag?. Works in IE8, Chrome, but noe in Firefox. cfoutputp style=font-family: Wingdings;#Chr(252)#/p/cfoutput ? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327278 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: display wingding character code
yes, unfortunately doesnt work in ff thanks is there no way to place it in a normal string without having the p tag?. Works in IE8, Chrome, but noe in Firefox. cfoutputp style=font-family: Wingdings;#Chr(252)#/p/cfoutput ? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327279 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: display wingding character code
This might help. My google-fu at least might help someone else today, its not helping me :( http://superuser.com/questions/14087/get-dingbats-to-appear-in-firefox-3 On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Richard White rich...@j7is.co.uk wrote: yes, unfortunately doesnt work in ff thanks is there no way to place it in a normal string without having the p tag?. Works in IE8, Chrome, but noe in Firefox. cfoutputp style=font-family: Wingdings;#Chr(252)#/p/cfoutput ? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327280 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: CF8 and CF9 on the same computer
Multi-server is *definitely* the way to go. But before you uninstall your standalone, be sure to create a CAR of all your settings. This way when you re-install in multi-server setup, all you do is import the CAR and you'll have all of your settings, datasources, mappings, etc in place. Oh, and to be sure, the initial multi-server install is stupid simple, thanks to the installer. :-) I have the first step done. I uninstalled CF8 (didn't save settings but they are easy to redo) and then ran into the problem I noted in another thread about Adobe not offering CF8 anymore. Going on faith that somehow I will procure another copy of CF8, I went ahead and installed CF9 in multi-server. It was simple, but not quite stupid-simple. After setting it all up, I had to go into JRun and turn on the Proxy service so the external connectors could run, and turn off the internal web server. Then I had to open the webserver connector and rerun my Apache setup (it didn't take in the CF9 install for some reason). After that, I ran into the problem that apparently Adobe never fixed from CF8, the fact that even though I have a 32-bit install it tried to use the 6-bit version of mod_jrun20.so. So I had to grab the 32-bit copy from the wsconfig.jar file and replace the 64-bit one. Only then was CF9 running. :-) Now, crossing my fingers that CF8 is attainable somehow so I can do the second part of this... ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327281 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
special/reserved characters
hi, i am having a hard time understanding what characters should be allowed and what shouldnt on data entry, and what effects these will have on coldfusion or mysql processing I would appreciate any help in understanding how you guys deal with this, or what you do ensure clashes do not occur. This has baffled for me some time now! thanks in advance richard ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327282 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: display wingding character code
Try this: font style=font-family: Wingdings;font-size: 48pt;uuml; 1 2 3 4 5/font -Original Message- From: John M Bliss [mailto:bliss.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 7:38 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: display wingding character code cfoutputp style=font-family: Wingdings;#Chr(252)#/p/cfoutput ? On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Richard White rich...@j7is.co.uk wrote: Hi, we want to display a wingding character code 252 in coldfusion text, how can we do this? we looked into chr() and other methods but so far no luck thanks for your help richard ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327283 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
More pie chart issues with CFChart
So today, I was asked to apply patterns to the pie slices in my CFChart. I thought it would be no problem, I went into the Web3d Charting program, added the option paint paint=Pattern and was shown a nicely patterned pie chart in the example. Copied the xml into my pie.xml on my system, ran it and everything is still solid. This is on a CF8 system with the latest updater installed. Is this a bug? Has anyone successfully been able to apply patterns to pie charts with this tag? Sandra Clark ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327284 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: count array element occurences
Try this UDF:
http://cflib.org/udf/REListFindNoCaseMultiple
Here's the UDF code and a quick example:
cfset list = '1,2,2,12,12,15'
cfdump var=#REListFindNoCaseMultiple('12',list)#
cfscript
/**
* When given a list of values, returns a list of element locations that
match a given regular expression.
*
* @param reg_expr The regular expression for the search. (Required)
* @param tlist The list. (Required)
* @param delims List delimeter. Defaults to a comma. (Optional)
* @return Returns a list of matches.
* @author Robert Munn (robert.m...@alumni.tufts.edu)
* @version 1, October 19, 2004
*/
function REListFindNoCaseMultiple(reg_expr,tlist){
var results=;
var expr_location = 0;
var i = 1;
var delims = ,;
if(arrayLen(arguments) gt 2) delims = arguments[3];
for(; i lte listlen(tlist,delims); i=i+1){
expr_location = REFindNoCase(reg_expr,listgetat(tlist,i,delims));
if(expr_location gt 0) results=listappend(results,i);
}
return results;
}
/cfscript
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Richard White rich...@j7is.co.uk wrote:
hi is there a way to count an array/list element occurences
e.g. list=1,2,12,12
find occurences for '12' would return '2'
thanks
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Re: count array element occurences
find occurences for '12' would return '2' For lists try the ListValueCount/ListValueCountNoCase functions cfoutput #ListValueCount(list, 12)# /cfoutput -Leigh ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327286 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: display wingding character code
is there no way to place it in a normal string without having the p tag?. Haven't tested it, but it occurs to me that you might be able to get it in a graphic using the new image features in CF8. Create a new image, set the image drawing font to wingdings and then write the character into the image. I realize this may not be quite what you're looking for either, but this relies on the font existing on the server, rather than relying on it existing on the client's computer, or on the browser supporting it (as seems to be an odd case with FireFox not supporting it). hth ike -- s. isaac dealeyAutLabs creating meaningful employment for people with autism http://www.autlabs.com ph: 817.385.0301 ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327287 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Need CF8 OS X 32-bit installer
I may have fund someone on the Adobe board that can help me. I spent an hour on the phone with Adobe getting the runaround and basically they have no intention to help anyone still on CF8. It's either go to CF9 or good luck to you. I seriously hope that many others in the CF community will be willing to take Adobe to task on this and get them to do the right thing. It's just not feasible for many organizations to make the upgrade, especially less than a month from the release of it. I know many many people that avoid any new software like the plague until it's had at least one update fix released, and I have every expectation CF9 will be no different in that regard. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327288 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: blocking site downloaders
(c) What the hell are they doing? Some will search for copyrighted images and, if they find some, they will send you some lawyer letter with a bill of 1500$ or so for using their image. (ie: Getty images,...) Most of them are simply looking for email addresses they could collect and sell to spamers. The current offending IP reverses to China. From China, it could also be gouvernement spider check if your site is promoting human rights, and if yes, I've got bad new, your site will be BANNED form china ! ;-) PLUS email fetchers, of course. o Add a session variable that stores the last page view time down to the second. However, this may not work as the offending behavior is probably generated by a bot or desktop app that doesn't store session variables. Exact. Better store the IP address in an application (or even a server variable) and calculate a moving average of time between requests to pages. If the average gets lower than a certain minimum, ban the IP address for at least a couple or hours. The bot will be discaouraged. o Review my databased logs for the current IP's last twenty page views. This may put an extra small hit on the server, but over all not as much as an extra 2200 page views in an hour every couple of weeks. This can be a pretty heavy task for the server. Log files are pretty big files. If the requesting IP has requested more than twenty pages from the website in the current minute, I block the IP for a period of time, say, an hour or two. This is what I do, but I use a moving average in a server variable. Much more efficient than reading log files. ie: server.structPass[REMOTE_ADDR].durpass =server.structPass[REMOTE_ADDR].durpass*6/7 + thisLaps; In thisLaps I have the nb of seconds between last and current request. The formula gives a moving average over 7 consecutive requests. If this average goes below a certain amount, there are chances the agent is a bot. I use this test among others to detect bad bots. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327289 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: More pie chart issues with CFChart
pie chart in the example. Copied the xml into my pie.xml on my system, ran it and everything is still solid. I suspect it might be a problem with your xml. In a quick test it worked fine for me. I made a copy of C:\ColdFusion8\charting\styles\default_pie.xml and changed one line: - Changed paint paint=Plain/ to paint paint=Pattern/ - Used the custom style: cfset custom = FileRead(ExpandPath(myPattern_pie.xml)) cfchart style=#custom #/cfchart -Leigh ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327290 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: blocking site downloaders
in case it's a search spider, you can try adding appropriate robots.txt robots.txt file may be useful for well behaved robots like Google or Yahoo, but bad bot disguise themselves like Explorer or Mozilla and they do not comply to robots.txt directives. Most of them never read it, and some of them will even read it ... and visit the forbiden areas on purpose. This is one of the trick I use to detect them : attempt to read pages referred in robots.txt ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327291 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: blocking site downloaders
On 17/10/2009 09:08, Claude Schneegans wrote: robots.txt file may be useful for well behaved robots like Google or Yahoo, but bad bot disguise themselves like Explorer or Mozilla and they do not comply to robots.txt directives. that's exactly why i also said of course, not all robots obey these rules - if this bot does not then you can consider banning it completely using the options you outlined. -- Azadi Saryev Sabai-dee.com http://www.sabai-dee.com/ ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327292 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
