Windows 2008 r2 server(64 bit ) and Web services
Has anyone ran into endless loop problems whilst trying to invoke a web service on windows 2008 server? I was barking up the wrong tree at first, I'd wrongly assumed that it was the recently upgraded cf9.0.1 that was causing the problems but ran the same code on a different server (Windows 2003, 32 bit) with CF9.0.1 installed and the code ran fine. It's a simple web service invocation, no error is generated, just endless loop till it times out. Any ideas? cfscript oBjWs = CreateObject(webservice, http://www.thewebsite/Users.asmx?wsdl;); //this gets user details by ID.. ObjGetUser = oBjWs.GetUserByID(theuserID); variables.getFirstName = ObjGetUser.getFirstName(); variables.getLastName = ObjGetUser.getLastName(); variables.getID = ObjGetUser.getUniqueID(); variables.getEmail = ObjGetUser.getEmail(); variables.getuserID = ObjGetUser.hashCode(); /cfscript cfdump var=#variables.getFirstName# / Many thanks, Matt ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336801 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Windows 2008 r2 server(64 bit ) and Web services
Success!! if anyone is interested.
On closer inspection of the application logs I found the error below:
Cannot perform web service invocation CheckUserAuthenticates.The fault returned
when invoking the web service operation is:br preAxisFault faultCode:
{http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope}Server.userException faultSubcode:
faultString: org.apache.commons.httpclient.NoHttpResponseException: The server
failed to respond faultActor: faultNode: faultDetail:
{http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace:org.apache.commons.httpclient.NoHttpResponseException:
The server www.boneacademy.com failed to respond at
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.readStatusLine(HttpMethodBase.java:1976)
at
I googled and found this article written by Tom Jordhal in 2007
http://tjordahl.blogspot.com/2007/03/apache-axis-and-commons-httpclient.html.
By basically switching the pivot values below
from:
transport name=http
pivot=java:org.apache.axis.transport.http.CommonsHTTPSender/transport
To this:
transport name=http
pivot=java:org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender/transport
restarted the server, everything now works.
Matt
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RE: getting server name
Thanks!!! That did it!! Eric -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:li...@commadelimited.com] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 1:56 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: getting server name Hah! I just implemented this same thing in our system the other day. This code snippet will return the computer's name: CreateObject(java, java.net.InetAddress).getLocalHost().getHostName() andy -Original Message- From: Eric Roberts [mailto:ow...@threeravensconsulting.com] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 12:44 PM To: cf-talk Subject: getting server name Does anyone know if CF,r via a .NET object even, I can get the server name (not the domain or IP) to use to differentiate servers in the application.cfm? The server name is the one thing that won't change if the server get changed. Thanks! Eric ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336803 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Need some fresh eyes on an application
I have created a test account with the following credentials: Server name: sql1100.shared-servers.com Port number: 1086 Username: hof_test Password: hof_test I'm not allowed to do anything with the user accounts or adding databases, since this is on a shared database hosting server. All interested are encouraged to play around and offer any feedback. Remember this is a work in progress, so a lot of functionality is yet to be added. Thanks, Paul Paul Day Owner/Principal Architect phone: 410.241.8465 email: p...@nucomsolutions.com web: http://www.nucomsolutions.com/ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336804 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Need some fresh eyes on an application
(Sorry, forgot the demo URL...) I have created a test account with the following credentials: Demo URL: http://www.nucomsolutions.com/dbDiscover Server name: sql1100.shared-servers.com Port number: 1086 Username: hof_test Password: hof_test I'm not allowed to do anything with the user accounts or adding databases, since this is on a shared database hosting server. All interested are encouraged to play around and offer any feedback. Remember this is a work in progress, so a lot of functionality is yet to be added. Thanks, Paul Paul Day Owner/Principal Architect phone: 410.241.8465 email: p...@nucomsolutions.com web: http://www.nucomsolutions.com/ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336805 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Bind issues - observation
I'm sure this isn't news to most of you but perhaps there are one or two people out there struggling with CF and Ajax. Rewriting an application for CF that was originally done in Access has some challenges. Among them is display fields that are updated by an associated field. In my case (and this dates back to when space was an issue and dBase was a space hog) I didn't store (as one example) city, state and county information but linked it to the zipcode combobox. Select a different zipcode or add a new one (new oes are created, but I'm being generic here - this applies to other types of linked data) and the combobox query populated your related fields in a snap. CF, for obvious reasons, isn't as simple. I turned to binding. Part of my problem is having to use IE. We use ADS authentication and this app needs to be behind that for security. Mozilla chokes on ADS - at least here. But IE doesn't have anything as good as Firebug. (If I am wrong in saying this *please* point me to the tool.) After manipulating some stuff I temporarily moved the app out of the ADS area and opened it with Mozilla. Thanks to some posts I found with Google and some advice from Tony Bentley and Raymond Camden I checked the XHR return values and found what was causing the errors. The error was thrown because of a bad JSON string. So, two pieces of advice: one problem was in Application.cfm. An old, old remark was html-remarked (!-- --) not CF-remarked and that was getting returned in the JSON string. The other issue was a footer file and another line of code in the OnRequestEnd.cfm I had to go to a blank OnRequestEnd file. I don't recall that bit of advice anywhere in the CF docs. All is still not well. One variable return is nothing by cfdump CSS code despite there being no cfdump being used. I'm still figuring that out. One person advises looking at jquery instead of Ajax. We'll be trying that Thanks to those who helped. Larry Stephens ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336806 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Bind issues - observation
Check out Firebug Lite that works among all major browsers, including IE - http://getfirebug.com/firebuglite http://getfirebug.com/firebuglite On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Stephens, Larry V steph...@indiana.eduwrote: I'm sure this isn't news to most of you but perhaps there are one or two people out there struggling with CF and Ajax. Rewriting an application for CF that was originally done in Access has some challenges. Among them is display fields that are updated by an associated field. In my case (and this dates back to when space was an issue and dBase was a space hog) I didn't store (as one example) city, state and county information but linked it to the zipcode combobox. Select a different zipcode or add a new one (new oes are created, but I'm being generic here - this applies to other types of linked data) and the combobox query populated your related fields in a snap. CF, for obvious reasons, isn't as simple. I turned to binding. Part of my problem is having to use IE. We use ADS authentication and this app needs to be behind that for security. Mozilla chokes on ADS - at least here. But IE doesn't have anything as good as Firebug. (If I am wrong in saying this *please* point me to the tool.) After manipulating some stuff I temporarily moved the app out of the ADS area and opened it with Mozilla. Thanks to some posts I found with Google and some advice from Tony Bentley and Raymond Camden I checked the XHR return values and found what was causing the errors. The error was thrown because of a bad JSON string. So, two pieces of advice: one problem was in Application.cfm. An old, old remark was html-remarked (!-- --) not CF-remarked and that was getting returned in the JSON string. The other issue was a footer file and another line of code in the OnRequestEnd.cfm I had to go to a blank OnRequestEnd file. I don't recall that bit of advice anywhere in the CF docs. All is still not well. One variable return is nothing by cfdump CSS code despite there being no cfdump being used. I'm still figuring that out. One person advises looking at jquery instead of Ajax. We'll be trying that Thanks to those who helped. Larry Stephens ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336807 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: mySQL data types - possible db bloat with text type? yes or no?
*bump* No one has any insight into this? Please please please. On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: Normally I use MSSQL but the shop I'm at uses mySQL. I've always built my db's so that the field best matches the data going into it. As an example if I was storing some text data that was max 1000 chars I would use varchar(1000) and not a blob type. I've always thought that this prevented bloating. However I've just been told something that contradicts this and I'm wondering what you experts say. Is using the TEXT datatype completely variable how long it it? So if I insert a single character into a tinytext, text, mediumtext or longtext field it will only take up that much room in the db? Is that correct? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336808 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: mySQL data types - possible db bloat with text type? yes or no?
With MSSQL you are limited to about 8000 bytes per row and anything beyond this will be chopped, so you need to be careful how much data you are storing. Using BLOBS will overcome this as a pointer to the blog is the only thing stored in the row, and the blog is actually stored separately. Using datatypes of specific lengths does indeed only take up the space used, but other factors affect thr storage such as page sizes. This paging applies to mysql as well, but I have never looked too deeply into it as I find MySQL very flaky and poor in performance compared to MSSQL so only use it when I have to, such as when I am using PHP apps.. I think this site will help you though., here is a post specifically about page sizes, but check the rest of the site too. http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/06/04/innodb-page-size/ You also need to make sure you are using the correct table type (MYISAM or INNODB) -- Russ Michaels www.cfmldeveloper.com - Supporting the CF community since 1999 FREE ColdFusion/Railo hosting for developers. blog: www.michaels.me.uk ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336809 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: mySQL data types - possible db bloat with text type? yes or no?
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: *bump* No one has any insight into this? Please please please. On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: Normally I use MSSQL but the shop I'm at uses mySQL. I've always built my db's so that the field best matches the data going into it. As an example if I was storing some text data that was max 1000 chars I would use varchar(1000) and not a blob type. I've always thought that this prevented bloating. However I've just been told something that contradicts this and I'm wondering what you experts say. Is using the TEXT datatype completely variable how long it it? So if I insert a single character into a tinytext, text, mediumtext or longtext field it will only take up that much room in the db? Is that correct? It's not as simple as you think it is. I don't know the answer for sure but this is what I know. Assuming mySQL...How much space something takes is dependent on the type of engine you select. The common ones are innodb, myISAM, and the perconaDB. As far I remember the innodb takes more space because it has more features and can't be compressed. Looking at myISAM, which by the way is probably not the engine you want for any transaction based db, you would use one (1) more bytes over a varchar(1000). So if storing i piece of data as a varchar(1000) that was 299 cahr longs it would take 300 bytes it would take 301 bytes if you had typed is as a text. That is true up to 65536 bytes. then the storage requirements changes. recap: in your case if you were using myISAM the text type would use 1 more byte than the varchar(1000). Things like char encoding like UTF or latin will impact it as well. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336810 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: mySQL data types - possible db bloat with text type? yes or no?
Thanks. Other than the 1 extra byte thing... if I'm using MyISAM and assumming I have a string that's 150 characters is there any advantage to using varchar(150) over say TEXT or any of the other text type fields? that's what I'm trying to get at. So is a table that's got 20 TEXT datatype fields going to be the same as a table that has 20 varchar(x) fields? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336811 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: mySQL data types - possible db bloat with text type? yes or no?
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: Thanks. Other than the 1 extra byte thing... if I'm using MyISAM and assumming I have a string that's 150 characters is there any advantage to using varchar(150) over say TEXT or any of the other text type fields? that's what I'm trying to get at. So is a table that's got 20 TEXT datatype fields going to be the same as a table that has 20 varchar(x) fields? There is an advantage in using varchar over text and it is performance. Because text type is written in a different area of the memory that the row buffer there may be a slight performance hit because it needs to do a harddrive read/write. I guess like your does ## impact performance thread it depends on the data you are storing. But let me say that you are much more likely to see this performance hit. I also believe that varchar can be indexed while text can't. I'm a little hazy on remembering everything right now cause I moved to an Oracle shop. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336812 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: mySQL data types - possible db bloat with text type? yes or no?
thank you sir. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Won Lee won...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: Thanks. Other than the 1 extra byte thing... if I'm using MyISAM and assumming I have a string that's 150 characters is there any advantage to using varchar(150) over say TEXT or any of the other text type fields? that's what I'm trying to get at. So is a table that's got 20 TEXT datatype fields going to be the same as a table that has 20 varchar(x) fields? There is an advantage in using varchar over text and it is performance. Because text type is written in a different area of the memory that the row buffer there may be a slight performance hit because it needs to do a harddrive read/write. I guess like your does ## impact performance thread it depends on the data you are storing. But let me say that you are much more likely to see this performance hit. I also believe that varchar can be indexed while text can't. I'm a little hazy on remembering everything right now cause I moved to an Oracle shop. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336813 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Authorization and Security for a web service
I do enjoy when I get to branch out and do things I've never done before. We are getting deep into the planning stage of a new project that will be a web service to be consumed by an outside agency to integrate their data systems with ours. We will want there to be security and authorization so that our system has a reasonable assurance that the submitted data only comes from their system. I'm pretty sure there are several ways to do this, but I have never done anything like it before. So I'm hoping some of you can point me to any good information on what we need to think about? How we might do this. What the process and code might look like to implement. Information along those lines. A couple of ideas that have already been raised. We creating a public|private key that they use to connect to our server as well as standard user name|password authentication. Thanks Ian ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336814 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Bind issues - observation
Larry, It sounds like your problem is mainly the architecture that you're dealing with. It is really important to understand modern Ajax (not the old Async JavaSript XML) and how to finely tune Ajax JavaScript libraries to do what you want. More specifically how to handle Ajax debugging and browsers that will not output debugging information. For instance, there was no way to know that you were using an Application.cfm with html and OnRequestEnd.cfm and that your markup was junking up your Ajax response without seeing the body of your respose. Your test environment was not setup well enough to work through debugging Ajax (until someone pointed out Firebug). In my testing environment, I use Firebug in Firefox to debug EVERY SINGLE REQUEST. If you cannot debug your requests/responses and view JS errors, there is no way you can build an application that uses Ajax. Even if Firebug didn't exist, there are ways around it. For instance, before firebug many developers would just log each request and response and view logfiles to see their issues. I also use a TON of jQuery because it simplifies the complexity of JSON and DOM and allows rapid Ajax development and DOM manipulation. ColdFusion has some nice built in libraries and I have used all of them at one point or another but for the sake of being able to extend JavaScript as a real programming language, I now just write scripts in jQuery and have them interact with ColdFusion components, returning JSON or strings or load a dynamic CFML page that takes care of all of the server side rendering that the browser might bark at (imagine using JSON DOM manipulation to output 10,000 records in one go). The example I gave you in your earlier post gives you an example of both client and server rendering of a state change. Remember that you do not need to use Ajax for state change and that sometimes it is better to simply use DOM manipulation using JavaScript to change the state of your views and render it all on the server. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336815 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Bind issues - observation
Thanks. I do understand most of this and do use javascript in many cases. Looks like I need to bone up on jquery. -Original Message- From: Tony Bentley [mailto:cascadefreehee...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 1:13 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Bind issues - observation Larry, It sounds like your problem is mainly the architecture that you're dealing with. It is really important to understand modern Ajax (not the old Async JavaSript XML) and how to finely tune Ajax JavaScript libraries to do what you want. More specifically how to handle Ajax debugging and browsers that will not output debugging information. For instance, there was no way to know that you were using an Application.cfm with html and OnRequestEnd.cfm and that your markup was junking up your Ajax response without seeing the body of your respose. Your test environment was not setup well enough to work through debugging Ajax (until someone pointed out Firebug). In my testing environment, I use Firebug in Firefox to debug EVERY SINGLE REQUEST. If you cannot debug your requests/responses and view JS errors, there is no way you can build an application that uses Ajax. Even if Firebug didn't exist, there are ways around it. For instance, before firebug many developers would just log each! request and response and view logfiles to see their issues. I also use a TON of jQuery because it simplifies the complexity of JSON and DOM and allows rapid Ajax development and DOM manipulation. ColdFusion has some nice built in libraries and I have used all of them at one point or another but for the sake of being able to extend JavaScript as a real programming language, I now just write scripts in jQuery and have them interact with ColdFusion components, returning JSON or strings or load a dynamic CFML page that takes care of all of the server side rendering that the browser might bark at (imagine using JSON DOM manipulation to output 10,000 records in one go). The example I gave you in your earlier post gives you an example of both client and server rendering of a state change. Remember that you do not need to use Ajax for state change and that sometimes it is better to simply use DOM manipulation using JavaScript to change the state of your views and render it all on the server. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336816 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Moving to Apache
Russ, We tried both ISAPI_rewrite3_0075_lite and ISAPI_rewrite3_0069_lite with no luck. I am not sure how you know the difference between what rules WordPress is giving you (Apache/IIS). Steve LaBadie, Web Manager East Stroudsburg University 200 Prospect St. East Stroudsburg, Pa 18301 570-422-3999 http://www.esu.edu slaba...@po-box.esu.edu -Original Message- From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 3:37 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Moving to Apache make sure you are using Isapi rewrite 3 and not 2 as only 3 works with apache rules make sure wordpress is giving you the Apache rules and not the IIS rules. If it is causing you that much grief, it probably will just be easier to give Apache a try. However I would recommend upgrading to windows 2008/IIS7 as it is better in many ways, it is however significantly different and does have a fair old learning curve. -- Russ Michaels www.cfmldeveloper.com - Supporting the CF community since 1999 FREE ColdFusion/Railo hosting for developers. blog: www.michaels.me.uk ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336817 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Bind issues - observation
Amen to jQuery! -Original Message- From: Tony Bentley [mailto:cascadefreehee...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 1:13 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Bind issues - observation Larry, It sounds like your problem is mainly the architecture that you're dealing with. It is really important to understand modern Ajax (not the old Async JavaSript XML) and how to finely tune Ajax JavaScript libraries to do what you want. More specifically how to handle Ajax debugging and browsers that will not output debugging information. For instance, there was no way to know that you were using an Application.cfm with html and OnRequestEnd.cfm and that your markup was junking up your Ajax response without seeing the body of your respose. Your test environment was not setup well enough to work through debugging Ajax (until someone pointed out Firebug). In my testing environment, I use Firebug in Firefox to debug EVERY SINGLE REQUEST. If you cannot debug your requests/responses and view JS errors, there is no way you can build an application that uses Ajax. Even if Firebug didn't exist, there are ways around it. For instance, before firebug many developers would just log each request and response and view logfiles to see their issues. I also use a TON of jQuery because it simplifies the complexity of JSON and DOM and allows rapid Ajax development and DOM manipulation. ColdFusion has some nice built in libraries and I have used all of them at one point or another but for the sake of being able to extend JavaScript as a real programming language, I now just write scripts in jQuery and have them interact with ColdFusion components, returning JSON or strings or load a dynamic CFML page that takes care of all of the server side rendering that the browser might bark at (imagine using JSON DOM manipulation to output 10,000 records in one go). The example I gave you in your earlier post gives you an example of both client and server rendering of a state change. Remember that you do not need to use Ajax for state change and that sometimes it is better to simply use DOM manipulation using JavaScript to change the state of your views and render it all on the server. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336818 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Moving to Apache
I would love to install Apache on my laptop/windows7 for a development server, but have no idea how to set it up where I can put the 192.168.1.8 testdomain.com in the hosts file and then add the website in Apache because IIS only allows 1 default site unless its running on a server. Anyone have any suggestions here (positive ones)? Terry ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336819 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Moving to Apache
Terry, you edit the hosts file exactly as you do now, it makes no difference that you are using Apache. The hosts file is simply telling your machine to resolve a domain to a specific IP address, e.g. your local machine. IIS6 only allows 1 site to be active at a time, but you can have multiple sites and switch between them, here is a free tool to make that easier. http://www.jetstat.com/iisadmin/ IIS7 does not have this restriction, neither does Apache. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Terry Troxel te...@it-werks.com wrote: I would love to install Apache on my laptop/windows7 for a development server, but have no idea how to set it up where I can put the 192.168.1.8 testdomain.com in the hosts file and then add the website in Apache because IIS only allows 1 default site unless its running on a server. Anyone have any suggestions here (positive ones)? Terry ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336820 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Moving to Apache
Steve. The difference is quite obvious. If you are using the latest wordpress then i'm quite sure it detects your webserver and gives you the right rules, but as IIS6 has no such feature then it may not be detecting either. The IIS rules are web.config entries, the Apache rules are htacces sentries. If you google them both you will find examples of each. Russ On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Steve LaBadie slaba...@po-box.esu.eduwrote: Russ, We tried both ISAPI_rewrite3_0075_lite and ISAPI_rewrite3_0069_lite with no luck. I am not sure how you know the difference between what rules WordPress is giving you (Apache/IIS). Steve LaBadie, Web Manager East Stroudsburg University 200 Prospect St. East Stroudsburg, Pa 18301 570-422-3999 http://www.esu.edu slaba...@po-box.esu.edu -Original Message- From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 3:37 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Moving to Apache make sure you are using Isapi rewrite 3 and not 2 as only 3 works with apache rules make sure wordpress is giving you the Apache rules and not the IIS rules. If it is causing you that much grief, it probably will just be easier to give Apache a try. However I would recommend upgrading to windows 2008/IIS7 as it is better in many ways, it is however significantly different and does have a fair old learning curve. -- Russ Michaels www.cfmldeveloper.com - Supporting the CF community since 1999 FREE ColdFusion/Railo hosting for developers. blog: www.michaels.me.uk ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336821 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Authorization and Security for a web service
Check out these presentations by Simone Free. He's got some really good pointers in them. http://www.simonfree.com/presentations/cfobjective.html http://www.simonfree.com/presentations/cfunited-09---washington-dc.html http://www.simonfree.com/presentations/nashville-cfug.html Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com Ian Skinner wrote: I do enjoy when I get to branch out and do things I've never done before. We are getting deep into the planning stage of a new project that will be a web service to be consumed by an outside agency to integrate their data systems with ours. We will want there to be security and authorization so that our system has a reasonable assurance that the submitted data only comes from their system. I'm pretty sure there are several ways to do this, but I have never done anything like it before. So I'm hoping some of you can point me to any good information on what we need to think about? How we might do this. What the process and code might look like to implement. Information along those lines. A couple of ideas that have already been raised. We creating a public|private key that they use to connect to our server as well as standard user name|password authentication. Thanks Ian ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336822 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Preserve HTML format when inserting into HTML
I have an XML object that was populated from an XML file. This XML comes from an external system that I do not control. Here is the bit of XML that I'm struggling with: parks park SiteAbstract ![CDATA[font color=#045172bLoveridge Bridge North/b/font]] /SiteAbstract /park /parks I know this is valid XML...at least it works in the system that uses it. I am trying to write an updated value to this SiteAbstract tag, and the result will show up in this external system. As you can see, the HTML inside the tag is NOT htmlencodedformat, it's just plain HTML. Since SiteAbstract is using the CDATA tag, this is fine. The trouble is that when I try to insert HTML into this tag, ColdFusion is converting the HTML to entity tags. Normally this would be fine, as people usually don't want plain HTML in XML. But with this external system I need to preserve the HTML as is. I have googled and dug in the docs for a while now and I can't find a way to force ColdFusion to leave the HTML as is. The only solution I have come up with (and this is NOT what I'd prefer to do) is to do cfloop file=myXMLfile.xml, search for the XML tag I need to update (this part will be painful) and then manually change the XML tag contents and save the XML to disk. Any better ideas? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336823 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Bind issues - observation
Or even cfajaxproxy built into ColdFusion. Check these tutorials out. http://www.andyscott.id.au/2010/8/27/How-to-handle-ColdFusion-session-time-o uts-with-Ajax-calls-and-ExtJS http://www.andyscott.id.au/2010/7/25/ColdFusion-and-populating-a-dropdown-ba sed-on-the-selection-of-another Regards, Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/ -Original Message- From: Stephens, Larry V [mailto:steph...@indiana.edu] Sent: Saturday, 4 September 2010 3:38 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Bind issues - observation Thanks. I do understand most of this and do use javascript in many cases. Looks like I need to bone up on jquery. -Original Message- From: Tony Bentley [mailto:cascadefreehee...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 1:13 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Bind issues - observation Larry, It sounds like your problem is mainly the architecture that you're dealing with. It is really important to understand modern Ajax (not the old Async JavaSript XML) and how to finely tune Ajax JavaScript libraries to do what you want. More specifically how to handle Ajax debugging and browsers that will not output debugging information. For instance, there was no way to know that you were using an Application.cfm with html and OnRequestEnd.cfm and that your markup was junking up your Ajax response without seeing the body of your respose. Your test environment was not setup well enough to work through debugging Ajax (until someone pointed out Firebug). In my testing environment, I use Firebug in Firefox to debug EVERY SINGLE REQUEST. If you cannot debug your requests/responses and view JS errors, there is no way you can build an application that uses Ajax. Even if Firebug didn't exist, there are ways around it. For instance, before firebug many developers would just log each! request and response and view logfiles to see their issues. I also use a TON of jQuery because it simplifies the complexity of JSON and DOM and allows rapid Ajax development and DOM manipulation. ColdFusion has some nice built in libraries and I have used all of them at one point or another but for the sake of being able to extend JavaScript as a real programming language, I now just write scripts in jQuery and have them interact with ColdFusion components, returning JSON or strings or load a dynamic CFML page that takes care of all of the server side rendering that the browser might bark at (imagine using JSON DOM manipulation to output 10,000 records in one go). The example I gave you in your earlier post gives you an example of both client and server rendering of a state change. Remember that you do not need to use Ajax for state change and that sometimes it is better to simply use DOM manipulation using JavaScript to change the state of your views and render it all on the server. ~~ ~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael- Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf- talk/message.cfm/messageid:336816 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf- talk/unsubscribe.cfm ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336824 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Moving to Apache
Terry, you edit the hosts file exactly as you do now, it makes no difference that you are using Apache. The hosts file is simply telling your machine to resolve a domain to a specific IP address, e.g. your local machine. IIS6 only allows 1 site to be active at a time, but you can have multiple sites and switch between them, here is a free tool to make that easier. http://www.jetstat.com/iisadmin/ IIS7 does not have this restriction, neither does Apache. Thanks Russ, but if I understand you right the tool you mention works with XP not win7. I have CF8 installed with the development server set to port 80, because I tried to install IIS7 And then saw all the posts saying installing Coldfusion with IIS7 was a nightmare and try as I Might I couldn't get it to work. Has anything changed? If so I am game to try again. Terry ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336825 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
