Re: cfssetting showdebugoutput
You want cfsetting showdebugoutput=No not false. It will stop any debug output, just as if you removed your IP address from the list in cf admin. It will not have any effect on error output, etc. ~| 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:338044 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CFML broadcasting app
Here is what I've learned over the past week on this topic (talk about a timely posting). I have a simple app that I use to send email blasts to my neighbors about neighborhood events, etc. There is a database with the emails (about 150 records), and I just loop over it and do a CFMAIL to send each address the message. This has been working for years, and got around all the problems usually associated with sending a message directly from a desktop client to a long list of addressees (looks like spam to both the sending SMTP server and to the receiving server, etc.). Until last week. I sent out a blast, and about an hour later my outgoing SMTP connection for Outlook (which is the same SMTP server that I have CF configured for), stopped working - it was getting a login failure when it tried to send out my desktop messages. I called the ISP tech support, they couldn't find any problem, reset my password, and everything started working again. Until yesterday. I sent out another blast, and the same thing happened. The proverbial light when on above my head. I called tech support, but this time their resetting of the password didn't work, and I also noticed that the error message from Outlook was not the login failure, but a domain has been blacklisted message. The tech support guy looked into it, and sure enough, those split-second blasts of 150 emails from the CF app triggered the ISP's spam-bot detection. Nothing to do but to wait for it to time-out and decide I'm a good guy after all (unless I run that CF app again!), or until Monday morning when the security guys get to work and manually fix it. Good news is that after about 12 hours it seems to have de-blacklisted me. So the moral of the story is that you definitely need to be careful about throttling this kind of activity. Like I said, this worked for me for years (with the same ISP), and I didn't recently add any new addresses to the database. The ISP isn't going to be very forthcoming with details on something like this, but they obviously lowered the threshold on their end of how much outbound SMTP traffic can take place in a short timespan. I need to modify my emailer app to not send them all at once. That needs to be coordinated with the CF Admin MAIL settings. The delay interval between executing a batch of CFMAIL tags has to be a multiple of the mail polling interval set in CF Admin. I'm running on my own box, so I know what that interval is, but if you're using a shared hosting service then you're going to have to experiment to deduce what they have their polling interval set to - the default is 15 seconds (or you could call them and ask). The CF shared hosting configs that I've worked with always had it set to something higher, like 5 or 10 minutes. I ran into this with just 150 addresses, so you should be able to see what level of complexity you're going to run into with the massive quantity you're talking about. Good luck! -reed ~| 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:336100 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Google Adwords API Question..
The process you described is that of the V13 release of the AdWords API. They have recently released the V2010 Beta of the reporting service, and life is much simpler, although they have not yet moved all of the V13 reporting functionality to V2010 (and some of the old functionality is probably going to be left to die on the vine). In V2010, there are only 2 required steps (3 if you do the validate, but that was an optional step in V13 as well): 1. Define the report job - this is a SOAP call where you specify the account, type of report, date range, and data items desired. This just defines the report, it doesn't run the report 2. Request the report, using the job# returned from step 1. This is a REST call and has to be for the same client account for which the report was defined. It will return the actual file data of the report. The format (CSV, XML, ...) and compression (ZIP) would have been specified in the report definition in Step 1. The wait time that we used to have to deal with in V13 is now implicit in how long the REST call in Step 2 takes to complete, since that is when it generates the report and returns the report data. From the looks of things, and discussions on the adWords API forum/blog, you really only have to define the report once for each client, so long as you aren't using hard-coded date ranges, and then pull that same report's JOB # each day. I haven't tried that approach yet. FYI, they have not yet set a price for doing the report pull in step 2. Hopefully it will be at least as cheap as it was in V13. There is an associated API call added in V2010 to return the names of the fields that you can specify in the report definitions for each type of report. Those names are no longer in the docs, so you need to do the API call to get the data values to use on subsequent API calls. Good luck, yell if you need more help, there are a couple of CF adWords API people on this list. -reed ~| 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:335177 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Google Adwords API Question..
It for a SaS, so it would have to run reports continuously for x number of clients on the system. You think that would still be something that would work if I had multiple tasks setup for each client on the system? You ever run into reliability issues with the Reports coming back empty or generating an error etc? I kept reading on old threads that it wasn't very reliable, but that was from a thread in 2006 or something. This is a constant problem with the adWords API - if you are trying to get the prior day's data, then you have to decide when you want to try and pull the data, and then hope for the best. There are no API calls in adWords (like there are in Yahoo's API) to find out when the data is ready to pull. What we do for the daily performance numbers is to setup a scheduled report on the AdWords GUI, and have it emailed to us. We have a CF task that monitor's the inbox used for the purpose, and unloads the incoming files for processing. That way Google is in control of determining when to send the data. You also need to take into account the fact that the performance data for a specific date can change anytime during the 30 days that follow, as changes are made for click-fraud corrections. 99% of the time those changes are only made within a day or two after the date. -reed 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:335178 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Adobe ColdFusion Anthology released
Mike: 2 copies just arrived to give out at my next UG meeting - from leafing through it looks great! I got an email a few minutes ago from the publisher telling me that 2 reprinted copies are on their way because of some printing error in the first ones. Any concrete info available on just what was changed? Is it so bad I shouldn't give away those copies? thanks, -reed ~| 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:333765 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Old CF doc needs to learn new Java tricks
I've put this for too long, and now there is real need for me to interface my CF code to vendor-provided class libraries written in Java. Have been coding CF apps for a long time; it's the Java side that I'm petty weak on. Documentation on the Java libraries (mostly Google AdWords at this point) isn't too bad, and there are Java examples of using them in a 100% Java application. I've found blog posting here and there that have tidbits of info on doing this sort of thing, but I'm sure that there's a lot more out there that would be helpful to me. The problem is that with search terms like ColdFusion and Java, given that CF is build on Java and that Java is popular in it's own right, the results of Googling have been pretty useless. Any points to resources to get this project kick-started? thanks everyone, Reed ~| 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:331656 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Old CF doc needs to learn new Java tricks
Thanks for the note John - I didn't meant to imply that I was new to the AdWords API. I have been programming against it from CF for a long time, mostly using CFXML and CFHTTP (since CFINVOKE etc weren't around when we started writing this stuff). But with the total rewrite/rearchitecture for V2009 of the AdCenter API I'm weighing rewriting all of my stuff from scratch, or just interfacing to their Java client library and letting it do the heavy lifting in talking to their webservice. Especially since they haven't done a lot in the way of documenting what the actual SOAP requests look like. Have you upgraded your code to V2009? There's only 5 weeks left until V13 sunsets, so I gotta get rocking and rolling on 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:331711 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Apache AXIS version in CF9 and CF8?
Anyone know for sure what versions of Axis are in CF8 and CF9? Or how to get Cf to expose that info? Am having parsing problems with a third party XML file, and they're curious as to what version is having the problems. They're putting a line like this after the first line of the file (ie, after the ?XML line): ?bulk application=mr_xml? which is supposed to indicate that the code is machine readable (not sure exactly what that really means, but that's what the third part says. If I remove that line from the file, then it parses ok via CF's xmlParse() function thanks, -reed ~| 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:331172 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Apache AXIS version in CF9 and CF8?
Right Dave, I got my wires crossed there. I remember reading something a few years ago about being to replace the xml parser that comes with CF with one of a couple of others - do you know which parse is the one the comes with CF9 (or Cf8, I doubt that it has changed)? thanks -reed Anyone know for sure what versions of Axis are in CF8 and CF9? Or how to get Cf to expose that info? Am having parsing problems with a third party XML file, and they're curious as to what version is having the problems. They're putting a line like this after the first line of the file (ie, after the ?XML line): According to /META-INF/MANIFEST.MF within the axis.jar file on CF 9: Manifest-Version: 1.0 Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.5.3 Created-By: 1.4.2_05-b04 (Sun Microsystems Inc.) Name: org/apache/axis Implementation-Title: Apache Axis Implementation-Version: 1.2.1 2243 June 14 2005 Implementation-Vendor: Apache Web Services ?bulk application=mr_xml? which is supposed to indicate that the code is machine readable (not sure exactly what that really means, but that's what the third part says. If I remove that line from the file, then it parses ok via CF's xmlParse() function I don't think CF uses Axis to parse XML generally, it's a web service library. The line in question is a directive that specific applications could use to do something particular with that XML file, but other applications should ignore the directive. I don't know why CF isn't ignoring it, but I hope that helps a bit. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsi ~| 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:331183 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Apache AXIS version in CF9 and CF8?
Thanks for all the info Pete. I'm running CF9, so that's Java 1.6, and it uses Xerces 2.9.1, which seems to be the latest. Interesting that you were able to parse the xml using java 1.5 - maybe I'll give this a try on a CF8 box. I'll probably end up doing the stripping of that line, but it's a pain to do that because some of the files are big (400MB+) and don't have any line breaks in them, so first I need to make a pass over the file just to get line breaks before each XML tag, so that I can then use CFLOOP to go through it a second time on a line by line basis. If I try to read that whole file in at once CF (JVM actually) will roll over. thanks again for all the info, still digesting it, -reed ~| 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:331189 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
WOT: graphical representations of passcodes
Sorry for this WOT question - I was getting ready to Google for sources of code (hopefully CF or CF-friendy) to produce the graphics that are used to ensure that a human is at the other end of an http connection (you know, the one's that require you to enter the number or character sequence being displayed next to the text input box) - and realized that I have no idea as to what the h*** they are called! Some kind of a glyph I thought, but my feeble attempts at the googling were too generic and produced way too many search hits. But I'M SURE that a few weeks (months?) ago I saw someone on this list make mention of some CF code for doing just this. Anyway, TIA for the answer! Reed ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:235839 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
CF performance tuning: CFTRY/CFCATCH vs CFERROR? What about excessive CFOUTPUTs?
Hello all - I've googled the heck out of this topic, and there are more opinions than I can count! Is there any definitive info on whether it is more efficient to put a CFTRY around an entire page's contents, with a CFCATCH at the end to trap errors, or to simply have a CFERROR page specified in application.cfm (and only use CFTRY/CFCATCH in specific pieces of code that might need special error handling procedures)? In other words, what is the performance cost for code that is executing within a CFTRY block? I'm interested in this because the CF server that I've just recently started working with seems to be having periodic performance problems (still trying to determine what periodic actually means), and noticed that a lot of the application's pages have a single CFTRY around them. I've also noticed excessive use of CFOUTPUT tags. Is it worth consolidating these to help performance? I've seen as many as 5 in a block of code that's only 30 lines long, where only 1 was needed. What about excessive # marks? It makes me crazy to see code like cfif #somevariable# eq yes ... But does that also make CF crazy? I'd think that this goofiness would not actually filter down to the Jrun code that actually executes, right? Any good MX7 performance/tuning papers running around? I checked on the macromedia website, and with google, but only found info on older versions. TIA for any hints! Reed ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:227949 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Print to index cards
Check out the CF_AveryRTF tag, it will generate RTF docs formatted for specific Avery layouts, which would include their index card stock. You can also do your own custom layouts. -reed -Original Message- From: Jim Gurfein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 7:27 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Print to Index Cards Hi folks... need a little help I'm trying to take database output of varying length and print out on 3x5 index cards on a web page. The issue is knowing when the output needs to flow to the next index card so that titles can be repeated... Any thoughts ??? ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:189734 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
CFMAIL and Crystal Tech webhosting?
Hi everyone - this one has me stumped. I'm hosting a CF site on Crystal Tech, and added a simple page that allowed a visitor to send a hey look at this page email to a friend. I already had a contact us page that sent me an email via CFMAIL which worked fine. The new page only works when the destination email is in the same domain as the website. I've tried all combinations that I can think of in terms of SMTP server name, username, password in the CFMAIL tag, with no luck. I checked their knowledgebase and modeled my CFMAIL tag info after the PHP example, still no luck. I've forced the FROM address to be a legal address on my domain, still no luck. I've posted a ticket with Crystal Tech but am still waiting for a response, and was really hoping to get this simple little page up quickly! Any Idea? Thanks, -reed ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:185758 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Verity indexes - excluding files/directories?
I thought that I once read that when you setup the index for a collection (via CF tags, not the administrator, since this is a hosted account and I don't have access to CFADMIN) you could tell it to exclude specific directories from being searched.Now that I'm trying to do it, I cannot find anything like that - is it possible?I have some files on the site that are not ready for public consumption and so I don't them showing up in search hits. What I'd like to do is to just put them in a testing directory so that people that are reviewing them can access them.As for specific pages that are no longer part of the site and that I no longer want searched, I could just change their extension by adding an X at the end (CFMX etc) and that would keep them out of harm's way until I decided for sure that they were not going to come back to life, but it's the exclusion of entire folders (where I have to use the correct extensions so that they can be processed correctly and reviewed by people) that has me baffled. Thanks for the help, -reed [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Handling common access to pages and images for both http/https pages?
Before I go off in the wrong direction on this, I figured I'd see what others are doing...I'm building a couple of simple secure (https) pages on my site using the shared certificate provided by the hosting service (Crystal Tech).The URL that they provide point back to the same root that the rest of the website uses.I haven't had to do much in the past with https pages, and what I have done was the result of a lot of fumbling around. My pages all use a couple of common INCLUDE files for the top and left nav areas, and onrequestend.cfm for the bottom nav area, which include references to images and (obviously) other pages on the site. When I render the pages that are being called via https, I need for all external references on that page to be https, right?Otherwise the user will get warnings from the browser about mixed pages.What I'm thinking of doing is having the application.cfm look at the current url to see if it begins with http or https and then save that in a variable, and change all of the references in the INLCUDE files to use that reference. The kicker is that I don't want to have to use full http://www.mysite.com/page.cfm or img src="" references to the rest of the site, because that makes it a royal pain when I want to copy the files to/from a testing area, because they would have those hard coded references to the production site in them. What about references to external pages that reside on other sites?Can I do that from a page that was called via https?I don't think I can use a link like https://www.weather.com on my https page!Does that mean that all references from my page have to remain within my site? All advice and hints appreciated! Thanks, reed [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Losing Form Scope
From your code segment it looks like you didn't define an enctype, so its probably defaulting to using URL variables instead of FORM fields. Try dumping the URL scope cfdump var=#url# And see if your fields show up. To fix, try putting enctype=multipart/form-data into the FORM tag and see what happens. -reed _ From: Stan Winchester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 9:35 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Losing Form Scope I have a form that is submitting to an action page, but for some reason when the action page loads the form scope is gone, so when I look at the debugging information under Scope Variables the entire Form Fields: section is not even listed. This happens on the live CF5 server and my local CFMX development server. form action="" method=post input type=hidden name=CorpOK value=true input type=hidden . input type=submit value=YES - Extend the Ad Account class=button /form Has anyone seen anything like this before? Thank you, Stan Winchester _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
session var problems with Mac uses?
Here's the scoop:I just put a logon page on one of the sites that I manage, so that they can have a members only area.Simple logon based on member id- no password or anything that complex (they cannot figure out how to tell people their passwords at the moment, and it's just a gateway to keep the general public out). Session var tracks whether the user is logged in and what the member ID is. Works fine from a PC Craps out on a Mac.I've had a couple of Mac users try it, all see the same problem, which is that after entering their member ID, they get the logon screen again, which means that the session var with the member id isn't there.I gave them each a page to use that would dump out all the url/session/cookie/application/cgi vars, and told them to hit it twice in a row (so that I could see if the cf tokens stayed the same, so I could see if cookies were being set).What I see is that cookies are in fact being set, because for any of the users, all of their info has the same CF token info. It doesn't look like the session vars are keeping their values.The form processing page stored the member id and name in 2 session vars, and the CFLOCATIONs back to the members-only home page.That page always checks to see if the user is logged in by checking for a non-zero member ID, and if the user is not logged in then puts up the logon screen.For some reason when Mac users do this, the session var values being set on the form processing page are not there when the home page CF script is processed. Stumped.Any ideas? Thanks, -reed [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Control over HTTP_REFERER?
I've waited to the last minute on something that I thought was going to be simple. I'm working with a local genealogy society to allow their members to access a research facility that the society subscribes to.The rules of the game are that the society has to authenticate the users and limit the access to just their members - they cannot open it up to the world.The research facility uses the http_referer variable to determine if the request is coming from the society's website. Well, as far as I can tell, any means I use of sending the logged-in and properly authenticated user to the research facility's site (HREF, CFLOCATION, response.redirect) is going to have an http_referer value of the user, not the website.Since the users can come from anywhere (home, work, library, Aunt Matilda's, etc etc), there's no way I can see to send a list of all possible user IPs to the research facility. Any ideas on how to get out of this pickle?I don't think that CFHTTP is an answer, since there is going to be a lot of cookie, _javascript_ and image traffic between the user and the research site.I'm supposed to have this up and running on 1-July! Thanks -reed [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Webhosting and DNS connections to external databases?
HI everyone - I recently signed up with CrystalTech, based to a large extent on the good things I've heard about them here and in the CFDJ survey. However, there is a quirk that took me by surprise... With other hosting outfits that I've used, I had the ability to setup DSNs that pointed to external databases (MS SQL for instance) that were located on a server not at the hosting company (such as in my office).When I asked CrystalTech about this, I got the following reply: In a shared environment, there are only so many connections that a web server can make to a database (asp 1000, CF 50 concurrent).If we allowed all web sites to make connections outside of the network, this would slow the release of the connections and make it impossible to connect to any database eventually.You will need to have a database located at Crystaltech to use the shared hosting. Does this sound right? Also, SOT, anyone have any comments/experiences with IXWEBHOSTING?I'd been using them and they seemed OK, good price/functionality, but lately they've been flakey - loosing my website files and such - anyone else running into this situation? Thanks for the help, -reed [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Integrating CF with ASP/SSI code?
Hello everyone, here's the situation:I've inherited a site that is built with ASP, using a lot of SSIs for those parts of each page (top nav area, left nav area, etc) that are common to all pages.Most of the site is not dynamic, and the SSIs are just apparently used so that the common code is kept in one place.But the dynamic pages are in ASP, with SQL calls from the hosting service back to our SQL server in the office.What I want to do is to replace the ASP code with CF code so that I can build additional functionality into those pages.However, the presence of the SSI seems to get in the way of also using CF, since I don't see how to have a CFM file interact with the SSI files.I could (and probably will) over time replace the SSI files with CFM files that are CFINCLUDEd, but at the moment I need to get this work started, and am stumped.Any ideas on how to proceed? Thanks! -reed [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
HTTPS: what factors disable it?
Once again I'm in slightly new territory.Never had to worry about https in the past, everything was inside of the corporate network and no one really cared.Now I'm in the real world and... I have a site with a secure area that works fine when I test with a simple HTML file - in other words, the page renders and the IE padlock appears. But when I put up my CF page, the page still renders fine, but the padlock is not there.What sorts of things could I be doing that would cause this? It has a bunch of HREFs and IMG SRC references to another website on another server. Could that be the problem? I've tried some simple test pages with external references, and they still have the padlock.The references to the external site are via http: and not https: I'm missing something here - any ideas?Are there some things that are not permitted on a page accessed as https?I've checked a number of online https tutorials and haven't seen anything. Thanks, -reed [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: YALT: when to lock in CFMX
I think that the last quote you show is a holdover from the old pre-MX documentation.I asked this exact question to Ben F at the last Devcon prior to MX's initial release (I guess that would be 3 cons ago), and his unequivocal response was in agreement with the first 2 quotes you listed - much to the delight of everyone present.The scenario painted in the third example (whether the var is ever re-written) is also in line with the nature of the internal CF memory management problems in pre-MX CF which were the reason for needing to issue CFLOCKs just about every time you sneezed. It wasn't that a race condition existed, but that pre-MX CF had a habit of trashing itself when managing the memory used for application and session vars. -reed [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
[sot] SQL Server 200: Replication, pointer to good discussion list
Hello all!Does anyone have an opinion (what a loaded question) as to a discussion list focused on MS SQL Server that's on the caliber of CF-TALK? My question at hand deals with possible scenarios for doing SQL Server 2000 database replication over the internet.In my new job I've inherited a pretty strange setup, which has local users using a VB-based app on their PCs that hits a SQL database on the local server, along with a remote website that has the public side of the application in ASP hitting the same database via ODBC calls (including updates to the database) over a VPN connection back to the local server. Problem is that the server really isn't - just a glorified PC, no redundancy, etc., and the only backup scheme is nightly backups.I'm looking at new (anyone with an opinion on used refurbished servers?This is a non-profit so $$$ are always tight) servers to solve some of the hardware concerns, but would also like to look into having the web application go against a copy of the database that is local, so that the VPN is not necessary.Apparently the VPN requirement is responsible for driving the cost of the hosting service into the $700/mo range.Just to add to the mix, now that I'm in the picture, I'm writing CF apps to go against the same database to compensate for the various inadequacies of the VB application. Am open to all opinions and ideas on what the best future arrangement would be! Thanks everyone, -reed [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
CFFILE upload - accept= values?
Was doing some random testing of a page that seemed to have been working. For the file I just happened to not select the intended file, but the one after it in the browse list, which has nothing to do with the app and in fact had a filetype of 001. Surprise, it didn't download! What's the value for ACCEPT= in the CFFILE to tell it to accept anything? I tried *, */unknown and */* but neither worked. The docs say it wants a list of MIME types - what if the file has no MIME type? thanks! -reed ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
Tag for driving INPUT boxes from a SELECT statement?
HI all - I've searched high and low for a tag to do the following; I was sure that I'd seen one like it sometime in the past (on the old Allaire tag gallery maybe), but am coming up blank. Any leads? We've seen the 2 3 SelectesRelated tags that have been around for a long time and work great. The selection from one SELECT populates the OPTIONs for the second, and then maybe this cascades to the second one driving the third SELECT. And I've seen a variant where the top level is a RADIO button selection that controls the first SELECT's OPTIONS, and so on. What I need is one where the selection from the first SELECT's OPTION list results in the population of one or more INPUT text boxes. An example would be to select a person's name from a list in the SELECT, and then the default/preferred address fields get filled in so that the user can override them if necessary, or just accept them and move on in the form. If I can find a tag to do this I'll be in hog heaven, because watching me code JS is more like hog H! Have I imagined seeing this around? mucho thanks! -reed ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
[OT] Software to generate online training sessions
Hello all! I need to start building some help/online training sessions for the users of my apps, and am wondering what software some of you with similar needs are using. The software would need to be able to record my screen activity as I demo various actions, be able to annotate as necessary, and also record voice instructions that go along with the video. If it can also import screen shots that is a plus. I saw someone use software with a name like Campesa or something similar, but the guy is no longer reachable for more info. Cost is a bit of a factor - I can't break the bank on this part of the project. Any recommendations? Thanks! Reed ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
CSS and vertical text - help!
Hi guys - I have 1 foot out the door for vacation, and the other is typing on a keyboard while my hands are busy with my CSS books. Is there a way to text to align vertically? In Excel, for instance, there is an option on the font properties so that text L O O K S L I K E T H I S Can I get this effect in CSS? I have a helaciously wide table to display and am trying to buy some horizontal real estate because it is the column headings that are making it so wide. Am hoping I don't have to do something like break each word into individual characters with BR in between. thanks everyone -reed ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
[ot] DW MX Extensibility - resources?
Hello all - I have a compatriot that is running into problems dong DW MX extensibility work. Anyone have pointers to a list that covers this work, or other good resources.\? thanks -reed ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
CF Temp files in \WINNT?
Hello all - I've noticed that there is a ton (about 300mb worth) of files in the WINNT directory with names of the format CFI*.tmp. Can these be from Cold Fusion? This particular system is running CF 4.5. They go back for a couple of years, and some are just a few days old. I'm going to trash the old ones, but am trying to see if there is a problem that needs looking into. thanks, -reed ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
[SOT]: Flash Commerce Server co-browsing?
A bit off the path: Anyone out there using Flash Commerce Server to do co-browsing (aka page-push or web-touring) applications? I'd like to chat offline. thanks -reed ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
[OT?]: CFHTTPing to a Dominoe server
Hi all - here's an interesting one. I'm pushing some data out to an application belonging to another group in the company, which is a Dominoe application written for them by a third party/consultant. I do the same thing to other applications written in non-CF (CGI, ASP, etc) with absolutely no problems. But with this Dominoe application, it seems to not like formfields whose contents contain either a question mark or an ampersand. Other special chars are ok. Now the obvious connection between those two are that they are also used for URL variables, but that shouldn't matter here because they are just part of the VALUE= attribute in the CFHTTPPARAM tags for the formfields. No proxy servers are involved. When it fails on the Dominoe end, all I get back in the CFHTTP.STATUSCODE var is a 404 error. Seems to be the only way it knows to tell me it is upset. According to the consultant they are working with, Dominoe does everything automatically - Now that's MY kind of programming language! What do you program with, a microphone?! Any ideas out there? Is there any possible way the CF could be messing up? Thanks everyone, -reed ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
MS Access Performance: Text vs. Memo fields
Hello all! I'm looking for real-world performance information for MS Access in terms of using text field vs. memo fields. I have a CF app using MS Access97 (just a couple of concurrent users on a busy day). Will be moving to Access2000 any day now, and maybe someday I'll get around to moving to MS SQL. A number of fields in the various tables are text, and I've been wondering if changing them to memo would improve or decrease performance. The fields I'm thinking of changing to memo are not searched on or indexed, so that is not a concern. The length of data in those fields varies significantly, and so I end up defining a pretty large field size for them as text fields, although I heard once that the data is actually stored as variable length strings, and so defining large strings should not be a factor. Any experiences to relate? thanks, reed
cfchart and stacked bars?
Hi all - I was sure that I'd seen a demo (maybe at CFUN02 or one of the traveling MM roadshows) of using CFCHART to do stacked bar graphs. But I've spent more time than I want to admit trying to make it happen in real life. Am I hallucinating about the demo, or am I dense and not doing it right (what a choice)? Thanks for the help -reed
CF and Oracle 9i
Quick question: Can CF5 talk to Oracle 9i? Can CF MX talk to 9i? Native or ODBC drivers? -reed 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
Uploading files via CFHTTP?
Hi everyone! I'm looking at the CFHTTP documentation trying to divine the answer to the following question: Is it possible to use CFHTTP to push a datafile to another website? My app currently stores the user documents (word, excel, etc) on the local server, but we're looking at using a document management system, and one of the possible methods of interfacing might be CFHTTP. Getting the metadata about the document to the other website is easy - but what about the file itself? I don't see anything in the CFHTTP docs about this. All help is appreciated! thanks -reed 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
evaluate() inside of CFQUERY vs outside of CFQUERY
Why would evaluate function differently inside of a CFQUERY vs outside? Specifically relating to the processing of text containing single quote marks. This code works: cfset linkname=evaluate(form.LinkNameX ThisKey) cfquery datasource = asg UPDATE NewsItemLinks SET LinkURL='#evaluate(form.LinkURLx ThisKey)#', LinkName='#variables.linkname#' WHERE key=#thiskey# /CFQUERY But this code fails if the contents of the form field being referenced contains a single quote: CFQUERY datasource = asg UPDATE NewsItemLinks SET LinkURL='#evaluate(form.LinkURLx ThisKey)#', LinkName='#evaluate(form.LinkNameX ThisKey)#' WHERE key=#thiskey# /CFQUERY The failure is an SQL parsing error, and in the displayed SQL, the single quote in the text string is clearly the problem. If the text doesn't contain a single quote, then both pieces of code work just fine. I've obviously found the fix but I'm curious as to what's going on here. This looks to me to be more of a CFQUERY problem/aspect/feature than a problem with evaluate, since as far as I can see it's returning the exact same string in both cases. thanks all, -reed 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
RE: UDFs, CF Locking, etc., and NEO=fixed
The current discussion on locking, and what CF should do vs what the programmer should do, is really mixing two different issues. The concern that most of us have had for some time is not that we need to do locking to preserve application data integrity, but that we also need to do extra locking to preserve CF Server's memory integrity. The first is something that I think most of us would prefer to do ourselves, since we know better than CF where our own apps really need locking. It's the second case, where we are forced to lock down everything in sight because if we don't, then sooner or later the CF Server is going to roll over because it's memory management has serious problems. I asked about this specific situation at the open session at Devcon2001, and Jeremy Allaire answered with the specific statement that this (the internal memory management locking problem) was fixed in Neo, and that all we would need to worry about in the future is locking to preserve our application's data integrity. My personal speculation is that the current memory management code is probably the Three Mile Island part of the server codebase, and that even though its problems have been well understood for years, no one has been able to muster up the courage to try and work on it without having the entire server go up in a mushroom cloud. With Neo they could just abandon it rather than fix it, and so the problems are taken care of. -reed 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
Retrieving header vars?
Anyone out there had any luck getting access in a CFM page to ALL of the header vars that come over from the client? I'm about to start using Siteminder to do the user authentication, and it puts the user info into the header vars. I don't want to use the current CF support for SiteMinder authentication because that's going away in the next release, so it's a dead end. I found a tag called PunchOut but it looks like overkill for what I want, unless I'm misreading what it does. thanks everyone, Reed 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
OT: Setting up IIS to parse domain name?
Well, we're trying to move into the 20th century finally, by moving our shared Intranet CF/webserver box from NT4 and WebsitePro to Win2K and IIS. I'd like to try and make it a better world for the users as well, but I'm stumped. On the NT4/WebsitePro server we have each site setup as a virtual directory. We also have a couple of DNS aliases setup so that users of each app can see a domain name that makes sense to them, but in reality we could swap those aliases around and it wouldn't matter, since they all point to the same canonical DNS name, and it's the /BLAH that comes after it that gets the users to the correct virtual directory. I know (but cannot seem to figure out how to make it happen) that Win2K/IIS5 can parse the domain name info that comes over from the HTTP request, and use it to determine which IIS website to go to to find the user's page. That would be great, because sometimes users leave off that /BLAH, and end up in some other guy's website, all confused and upset. If IIS can look at the URL coming in on the HTTP request and say Aha, THISAPP.BLAH.BLAH.BLAH refers to website THISAPP then that would be what I'm trying to do. Vanna, I need to buy a vowel. Anyone out there have a vowel? I've been up one site of the IIS menus and down the other, and nothing seems to work. Can this capability point to a virtual directory, or just to a website under IIS? thanks for the help that I know will be coming! -reed 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
RE: RE: VBscript problem getting user information
Thanks for the idea, but this is client-side scripting, not server-side, that I'm doing. -reed Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:34:35 -0500 From: David Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: VBscript problem getting user information Message-ID: 01c19cb4$c4ece3b0$[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think in ASP it is: %=System.login% That should output something like domain\username then you can use instr(system.login,\) to get domain name. But its been a while since I did that. I could be wrong 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
OT: VBscript problem getting user information
What little hair I have is going fast. Below is a piece of VBscript I copied off of the MS site, but it dies with errors relating to the WSCRIPT object. All I want to do is to get the user's authenticated domain and username. When it finally works, I'll put that info into a couple of hidden form fields so that the server can see who the user is. Cannot use the CGI header vars because the proxy server is stripping them off before they get to my CF server. I'm not much of a VBscript guy, so any help is appreciated. thanks -reed script language=VBScript Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject(WScript.Network) document.write Domain = WshNetwork.UserDomain document.write User Name = WshNetwork.UserName /script 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
RE: Database query question
Try this. In ACCESS create a Crosstab Query for the NIP_NUTRIENT table, with FOOD_ID as the row value, NUTRIENT as the column value, and VALUE as the intersection. Then in your CFQUERY do a JOIN of the NIP_FOOD table and the query over the FOOD_ID value. Caveat, I've never tried doing a join to a crosstab-ed query, but it seems like it should work. -reed -Original Message- From: Tilbrook, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:38 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Database query question I've been given a massive (130Mb) Access database with two tables. NIP_FOOD and NIP_Nutrient. NIP_FOOD contains a unique ID field which is Alphanumeric (eg: 01A10014). NIP_Nutrient contains a field called FOOD_ID which is seven seperate rows of the same value as ID (but not linked). eg: FOOD_ID VALUE NUTRIENT 01A10014191.574 ENERGY-SOA 01A100140.4 PROT 01A100140 FAT 01A100140 TOTSATFD 01A100142.492 CHO-SOA 01A100140 TOTSUG 01A1001410 NA-SOA What would be the way to retrieve all of the fields from both tables using the value (eg: 01A10014) but have it output a single row? It will stay in Access until I can get IT to port it to SQL Server or Oracle. Thanks! 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
RE:RE: CFREPORT and the Crystal Server
Ben - thanks for the info. I did more checking, and the DLL is in fact on my older server (now used for testing only) whose CF lineage began with CF 2.0. The DLL was in the SYSTEM32 directory for the NT 3.51 root, which is what OS was running back then. I tried coping it over to the SYSTEM32 directory in the NT40 root, which is what I am running now. That made no difference. I also tried copying it to the \CFUSION\BIN directory, no luck there either (but, oddly enough, the error message came back a lot faster!). SO, it looks like I have the DLL (dated in 1996), but cannot figure out how to get CF to find it. Any ideas? I'm hoping that once this gets resolved, and the server gets rolled to CF5, that the new CFREPORT still knows how to use the old Crystal engine, and not just the newer version, 'cause there's no way I'll get the bucks to buy that from Seagate!!! thanks! -reed -- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:01:59 -0500 From: Braver, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: CFREPORT and the Crystal Server Message-ID: CF3232998D6CD311A5B50020AFFC2E6802A7B5DC@AVNNTX01 Reed- CF used to include the CR engine. It doesn't anymore. You have to buy CR separately, sorry. BTW when you do get CR and try CFREPORT search for the threads about #GetDirectoryFromPath(CF_TEMPLATE_PATH)# HTH -Ben 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
Subject: Form Formatting
Easiest way is to use a style sheet. If you want to have all the INPUTS on
a page to follow the same style, then try this:
style
SELECT
{
color: black;
font-family: arial;
font-size: 8pt;
font-weight: normal;
border : Fuchsia;
text-align : right;
background-color : Silver;
border-width : 0;
line-height : 12px;
padding-bottom : 0px;
padding-top : 0px;
}
INPUT
{
color: black;
font-family: arial;
font-size: 8pt;
font-weight: normal;
text-align : right;
background-color : Silver;
width: 51px;
border-width : 0;
line-height : 12px;
padding-bottom : 0px;
padding-top : 0px;
}
/style
If you wanted only some of the boxes to change, then name the style
something like
.SmallInputBox
and then in the INPUT tag use a CLASS=SmallInputBox option - be sure to
get the case
correct!
-reed
--
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:28:44 -0700
From: Gonzo Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Form Formatting
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A lame question but hoping someone knows straight away.
I am trying to shrink the size of input Text boxes etc... and maybe control
the font used... but can't seem to figure it out.
Anyone with a hint for me?
Thanks,
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CFREPORT and the Crystal Server
I'm trying out CFREPORT for the very first time. I must be missing something. I thought that when CF installed, it included the Crystal Reports engine. I created a .RPT file in Crystal Reports Professional on my workstation, and moved it over to the server, and made a .CFM file to do the CFREPORT call. The error I get is: 192.168.0.2, Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90), Error occurred while processing CFREPORT The Crystal Reports Engine (CRPE32.DLL) could not be located on this server. ColdFusion's reporting functionality requires the Crystal Engine. Please verify that you have installed this component before using the CFREPORT tag.Crystal Library = () DLL Version = , Engine Version =The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFREPORT), occupying document position (9:2) to (9:55) in the template file d:\inetpub\wwwroot\asg\testcr1.cfm.Date/Time: 08/14/01 21:21:16Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)Remote Address: 192.168.0.2 I did a search for the CFPE32.DLL file, and could not find it on the server. I have tried this with both CF4.5.2 and with CF5, same problem. I cannot find anything in the installation options, or the readme files, about this. What did I do wrong? thanks everyone, -reed 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
Subject: RE: I dont understand session locking :(
Matthew, I love that shotgun analogy! Let me take a stab at this issue. Since session variables are, by their very nature, session-specific, under normal circumstances there will never be any contention between sessions for the same variable, either reading or writing. Not never, just almost never. One example would be when an anxious user starts stabbing at a SUBMIT key (the timing gets a little close in this case), or (better case) an HREF link to a page that starts something up in another window and that same anxious user. Here's how it's been explained to me in the past: But that's not the reason for the locking. I can have an app where I know for 100% certain that there can never be two sessions at the same time, and I still need to lock the session vars. The reason is that I'm not only alerting the other CF application pages to stay away (Matthew's Do Not Disturb sign), I'm also telling the CF server's memory manager to stay away. Matthew's shotgun isn't always in the hands of the other CF application level pages - it's also in the hands of the CFSERVER itself, when it performs memory management for all the session vars of all the users of all the apps on that particular server. When it needs to start doing memory management tasks (ie, blasting away with the shotgun) then that room had better be real empty. You'll probably get lucky most of the time, but sooner or later it's going to be your session var that CF was moving around to make room for someone else's session.structuredarrayfromhell variable, and wham! Someone is going to get corrupted. If CFSERVER had to check on each and every reference to a variable throughout your app, just to see if it was a session var (which is what it tries to do when you turn on the automatic locking) then the performance would go straight down the tubes. But, since it is pretty likely that you will be referencing more than one session var within a close proximity of code, then YOU know better as to where to put the read or exclusive lock to get the best performance. Remember, there's overhead with setting up and tearing down the lock itself, as well as the performance hit on forcing certain parts of the code to become single-threaded. You cannot do much about the latter, but you can reduce the overhead for the actual locking/unlocking process by using intelligent locks, rather than letting CF automatically put a lock around each discrete session variable reference. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that this would generate two automatic locks: cfset session.this = session.that I don't know how much the CF memory management is changing with the changes that are going on with the underlying engine. I'd love to see some comments on this from the Allaire crowd, talking at the system level, instead of just the application programming level. -reed 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
CF5 CFREPORT How to generate the Crystal Report templates?
The updated CFREPORT tag in CF5 looks interesting, since it has been upgraded to V8 of Crystal Reports. I never used the old one though, and have always been unclear as to what software I needed from Crystal/Seagate to make all of this happen. What is the minimal software (since their products are pricey) I need to buy so that my CF5 pages can use CFREPORT to display reports to the website users? thanks -reed 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
OOT: ListServ Software?
I hate to do this, but you guys know everything! Simple question: Where would I locate the software needed to setup and manage a ListServ operation internal to my company? My server would be Win2k. Cost is a factor. Activity level would be low (nowhere near the level of activity of CF-TALK, for instance). Features we're after are the core ability to assemble and retransmit the messages received (in both digest and non-digest modes), and to view/search the archives of past messages. tia, -reed 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
OT: Integration with LiveLink?
Anyone out there doing any sort of integration with the LiveLink document management product from OpenText? tia, Reed Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Printing pages wider than the browser screen?
I'm moving an app that used to be not much more than a set of spreadsheets over to my website. Everything's going fine, expect for printing, which is high on my list of pain-in-the-a** web design topics. The spreadsheets are wider than the screen, and IE truncates them at the right screen margin, no matter what the page layout settings are set to (portrait or landscape). I've got the font down to about as small as it will go (8pt) without becoming unreadable when the browser renders it. Any ideas? There is a lot of formatting in the various cells, so I cannot just send the data back to the browser as a CSV and let it open EXCEL, because the formatting would be lost. thanks everyone, -reed Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Using CFOBJECT to connect to WORD?
I just read a real interesting article on the www.coldfusionmonthly.com site about using CFOBJECT to access Excel files via COM. The primary motivation of what was talked about in the article was to get Excel to create charts and graphs. Has anyone tried the similar tack of using CFOBJECT to get MSWORD to create/edit documents? thanks, -reed Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Recursing with custom tags
Somewhere in the back of my mind I remember hearing or reading about the ability, without using session or client variables, to have a custom tag that is in the middle of recursion access the variable space of the initial caller. Since each instance of the call to the custom tag creates it's own space, using CALLER. doesn't work. What I want to do is to continually add to a set of results, on the initial calling page, of information that is collecting at each level of the recursion. I tried having each instance write it's set of findings to a CALLER. variable, thinking that as the recursion unwound those writes would gradually cascade upward towards the original caller, but that didn't seem to work out the way I thought it would. I beat that code to death so badly, trying to get it to work, that it's not in any condition to post here, but hopefully the idea of what I'm after came across. thanks, -reed Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
OT: IE 4 vs IE 5 handling of READONLY in INPUT
I spent half the afternoon at Borders going through every JS book trying to
figure this out, no luck. Anyone have some clues for me?
I have a simple form that is meant to resemble a simple spreadsheet for the
sales guys to use to do some pricing models with. I start with a couple of
known numbers from a database for the account they are working on, and then
let them do their modeling based on those numbers, using formulas that I
build using JS.
Those fixed numbers should not be changed (obviously). However, I want all
the numbers to format the same, so I set them all up as INPUT type="text"
and used different style sheets depending on whether the field was truly an
input field, or a calculated field, or one of the fixed input numbers. So
on the fields that are not really meant for user input, I set READONLY in
the INPUT tag.
When I need to recalculate (triggered via onChange in the user input INPUT
tags), I do a
document.formname.fieldname.readonly = 0
in JS, and then set it back to 1 when I'm done.
Sound OK so far? Well, I thought so to. My development PC runs IE 5, and
all is just great with this little app. I put it up on the production
server for people to beat on and test, and guess what? The official
deployed version of IE in the company happens to be IE 4, and whenever
and those fields with the starting numbers do not get populated. As soon as
a number is typed into any of the user input fields, I get a NaN error
message (not a number) in any of the other fields whose calculated value
depends upon the starting numbers.
I tried leaving off the initial READONLY in the INPUT tags, figuring there
was interaction between the initial value, and the JS code. Didn't change a
thing, but now if I happen to type a number into the field that should have
the initial value, the NaN goes away and the calculation uses the value I
typed in.
I should not be able to type into that field! The last thing that the JS
functions do, both when they do the recalcs, or when the startup routine is
called via onLoad in BODY (to set the initial values), is to set the
.readonly back to 1. But they are certainly not readonly now!
I looked all through the charts in the various books about what is supported
in each JS version and browser version, and found no mention at all of
READONLY. Many of the HTML books don't mention it at all. None of the JS
reference books I looked through included it as an option for the
document.form.field object. But then most of them didn't spend much time on
forms at all.
ANY IDEAS? I'M STUMPED, AND I WANTED TO GET THIS PUPPY OFF MY PLATE THIS
WEEK AND MOVE ON TO OTHER EXCITING THINGS. CODE IS BELOW...
tia,
-reed
cfset RevActual =
cfset COSActual =
cfset ATLActual =
cfset OEMActual=1000
script language="JavaScript"
function SetValues(){
document.data.RevActual.readonly = 0;
document.data.COSActual.readonly = 0;
document.data.COSATLActual.readonly = 0;
document.data.COSOEMActual.readonly = 0;
document.data.RevActual.value = parseInt(RevActual);
document.data.COSActual.value = parseInt(COSActual);
document.data.COSATLActual.value = parseInt(ATLActual);
document.data.COSOEMActual.value = parseInt(OEMActual);
document.data.RevActual.readonly = 1;
document.data.COSActual.readonly = 1;
document.data.COSATLActual.readonly = 1;
document.data.COSOEMActual.readonly = 1;
ReCalcAll();
}
function ReCalcAll(){
document.data.RevCoActual.readonly = 0;
document.data.RevRunRateActual.readonly = 0;
document.data.GMActual.readonly = 0;
document.data.GMPctActual.readonly = 0;
document.data.COSActual.readonly = 0;
document.data.COSATLActual.readonly = 0;
document.data.COSOEMActual.readonly = 0;
document.data.RevCoForecast.value =
parseInt(document.data.RevCoOneTimeForecast.value) +
parseInt(document.data.RevCoOngoingForecast.value);
document.data.RevCoActual.value =
parseInt(document.data.RevCoOneTimeActual.value) +
parseInt(document.data.RevCoOngoingActual.value);
document.data.RevRunRateActual.value =
parseInt(document.data.RevActual.value) -
parseInt(document.data.RevCoActual.value);
document.data.COSATLForecast.value =
parseInt(document.data.COSATLRunRateForecast.value) +
parseInt(document.data.COSATLCoForecast.value);
document.data.COSOEMForecast.value =
parseInt(document.data.COSOEMRunRateForecast.value) +
parseInt(document.data.COSOEMCoForecast.value);
document.data.COSForecast.value =
parseInt(document.data.COSATLForecast.value) +
parseInt(document.data.COSOEMForecast.value);
document.data.RevForecast.value =
parseInt(document.data.RevRunRateForecast.value) +
parseInt(document.data.RevCoForecast.value);
document.data.GMForecast.value = parseInt(document.data.RevForecast.value) -
parseInt(document.data.COSForecast.value);
document.data.GMPctForecast.value =
Math.round((parseInt(document.data.GMForecast.value) * 100 ) /
(parseInt(document.data.RevForecast.value)+1));
document.data.GMActual.value = parseInt(document.data.RevActual.value) -
OT: More info on OT: IE 4 vs IE 5 handling of READONLY in INPUT
Before anyone points this out, I forgot the following lines at the top of the JS code, which sets the JS variables from the CF variables (which were CFSETs just to make it simple for now; they would be database cells in real life)... cfwddx action="cfml2js" input="#RevActual#" toplevelvariable="RevActual" cfwddx action="cfml2js" input="#COSActual#" toplevelvariable="COSActual" cfwddx action="cfml2js" input="#ATLActual#" toplevelvariable="ATLActual" cfwddx action="cfml2js" input="#OEMActual#" toplevelvariable="OEMActual" Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists or send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: writing an RTF file from CF
One of the limitations of using the scheme for putting the CF code inside of the RTF is that you cannot put data into tables. I ran across the following tag in the gallery that takes care of this problem: CF_Query2RTFTable Also, from a long-term maintenance and upgrade perspective, it's probably better to write your CF code in WORD and then save the file as an RTF file, which is then CFINCLUDED, rather than use STUDIO to edit the RTF code. You gotta be real careful about using # characters in the WORD doc! -reed -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
Changing web server software - Does CF care?
I'm running WebsitePro, and CF 4.5.1, on my server. Am going to change to IIS sometime soon. Is CF going to get upset about this? When it installs, it wants to know which website server product to use (even if there is only one installed on the server), but I've never known how it uses that information. Will I have to reinstall CF (ugh, all those datasources to setup again)? If I install IIS while WebsitePro is still on the server, can CF talk to it? When I get rid of WebsitePro, is there an easy way to tell IIS to use port 80 (since Website would no longer be listening on it)? Lots of questions, thanks in advance for the answers! -reed -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
re: graphics rollovers w/o javascript
It might be possible to do what you want. If you can set up your page so that the image is actually the background for a table cell (instead of in an IMG), for instance, then you can define the image not in the TD but in a style sheet for the page. That allows you to then swap style sheets in the onMouseover onMouseout conditions. There is a lot of detail on how to do this in a book from Microsoft called Stupid Web Tricks. If you cannot find it, email me a fax number and I'll fax over the pages of interest. good luck, -reed -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
Authenticating against NT SAM - CFX_FILE and CFX_DIRECTORY
Anyone had any luck using the CFX_FILE and CFX_DIRECTORY tags from the custom tagged called "CFX_SECURE_FUNCTIONS"? These tags use the same DLL, and the docs with the download say that the C++ code exports both tags, but when I call them, I get a CF error saying that the tag has not been exported in the DLL file. Anyone ever used these, or know about another tag that gives me the ability to pass a username/domain/password and have it authenticate against the NT SAM? I don't care if it actually logs the user in or does an impersonation of the user, I just need to know if the password was correct for the given domain and username. thanks, -reed -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: CFLDAP SSL
Steve: Are you using NT or U* for your LDAP server? What you describe is what I used to do, which worked when the LDAP server was on an NT machine. However, it only works because of a bug in NT that allowed the authentication to work over a non-SSL connection (ie, the password was being passed as cleartext), which is why the LDAP people in my company moved their server to Linux, which is why I have to use an SSL connection whenever I have data in the username/password attributes. Any other ideas out there? thanks -reed -- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:17:39 -0400 From: "Steve Bernard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: CFLDAP SSL Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] One way I've done it is to make all operations queries, except for writes of course. If you just need to perform an authentication, request some attribute like "firstname" and pass the username/password. If the request returns an error or nothing at all then you know that the login information was bad. You need to be absolutely positive that the target attribute will always be populated if you are going to test the return value to validate. Otherwise you may receive false negatives. Steve -Original Message----- From: Reed Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 9:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CFLDAP SSL Hello everyone, this is round two of questions on my CFLDAP trek; thanks for the responses to my initial post last week. I've since upgraded to 4.5.1, so I now have the SECURE attribute for CFLDAP at my disposal, for an SSL connection. This (SSL connection) is what I needed to connect to the LDAP server to do authentication, because the moved the LDAP servers from NT to Linux to get away from a security hole in NT (the same hole that let my authentication work ok in that past!). Here's the glitch. The LDAP server doesn't make use of a certificate if I'm only doing authentication (as opposed to making an update to the LDAP data). However, CFLDAP requires the certificate information if I include the SECURE attribute. Is there any way to have CF not want to see the certificate database when I call CFLDAP? thanks -reed -- -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
CFLDAP SSL
Hello everyone, this is round two of questions on my CFLDAP trek; thanks for the responses to my initial post last week. I've since upgraded to 4.5.1, so I now have the SECURE attribute for CFLDAP at my disposal, for an SSL connection. This (SSL connection) is what I needed to connect to the LDAP server to do authentication, because the moved the LDAP servers from NT to Linux to get away from a security hole in NT (the same hole that let my authentication work ok in that past!). Here's the glitch. The LDAP server doesn't make use of a certificate if I'm only doing authentication (as opposed to making an update to the LDAP data). However, CFLDAP requires the certificate information if I include the SECURE attribute. Is there any way to have CF not want to see the certificate database when I call CFLDAP? thanks -reed -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
CFLDAP and SSL connections to LDAP server?
Hello everyone - do we have any CFLDAP gurus out there today? I've been using CFLDAP to do authentication of users on my website, but changes have been made in the corporate LDAP servers that are causing me problems and driving me nuts. Here's the situation: In the past, I used the LDAP server at two points in time. The first was to register a new user for accessing my site. I would feed the LDAP server the person's internal telephone number, and it would return to me a Distinguished Name (DN) field, along with lots of other data about the user. I would then store that information, and add the user to the list of site users. Later, when the user came to the site, he'd pick his name off of a SELECT list, enter his NT password, and hit a LOGON button. At that point I'd grab the DN from the database (that I stored during registration), and use it as the CFLDAP username. I'd take the password the user typed in, and use that as the CFLDAP password. Then I'd do the CFLDAP call. If it came back, the user was authenticated. If CF threw an error (trapped via CFERROR), then it failed. Well, things changed on the LDAP servers. The above worked only because of a bug in NT, which allowed a non-secure connection to bind to the server and do the authentication. So, they moved all of the LDAP servers to LINUX. Now I need to use a different port (636 instead of 389) for authentication, and more importantly, I need to do the LDAP connection via an SSL connection. Currently, everything is timing out. The log on the LDAP server shows the CF server doing a bind, and then nothing at all after that, so it times out, and then the CF server times out to the browser with the "high traffic/server load, come back later" error. How do I get CFLDAP to use an SSL connection? There is so little documentation on CFLDAP it's pathetic. If someone can solve this dilemma for me, I'll buy the beer in DC! thanks everyone, Reed -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
CF on WebsitePro - Frequent hangs
Hello everyone - we're running CF on Website Pro on our production box, and see frequent hangs of the CF service(s). It's not uncommon for them to hang a couple of times a day. We ended up putting in a workstation that keeps an eye on the production box, and restarts the CF services if they don't respond. Do others see this behavior, either with Website or other webservers (such as IIS)? tia, -reed -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: CF-Talk V1 #3
Lee, what is the ODBC command you are trying to execute? Are you reading or writing or updating? According to the Microsoft ODBC manual, if you are writing, then this sounds like the database field is shorter than the data you are trying to store. I don't think this is a problem with quotes around the data in the ODBC statement. -reed -Original Message- From: Lee Surma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 11:19 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Steve Weiner Subject: Re: Is there a typical cause for this error message? ODBC Error Code = 22001 (String data right truncation) -- Lee Surma Public Radio International [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
Connecting to DBF databases via ODBC?
Has anyone had any success connecting to Foxpro or dBASE DBF databases via ODBC? I get a DBF file from an outside source each month, and have been manually importing into Access. My goal is to automate this process. I'd like to just have a DSN that points to the location that this external application deposits the DBF file. So far, every attempt I've made in CF Admin to create a datasource results in a definition that cannot be verified. I must be missing the point on something here. thanks -reed -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
Debugging CFCONTENT/CFHEADER problems
Has anyone seen any utilities that would run on the client PC and show what the browser is actually receiving from the webserver? Am trying to debug some problems in getting CFHEADER and CFCONTENT to behave the way I want, and it would be pretty interesting to see what the browser is getting back. I saw some info on a website taht had a tool to do this, but the tool runs on his website (you tell it the URL to go look at, and it tells you what came back), but that doesn't help me since mine is an intranet site. thanks all, -reedI' -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
low-end web hosting services?
My contract is about to come up for renewal at my current host (ICOM). It's just basic service (no CF or ASP or anything like that) to handle static webpages for my wife's business. For $100/yr it's a good deal, but their tech support is pretty lame. Has anyone had any experience with other low-end hosting services? This service gives me 40mb of disk, 1 POP3 address plus unlimited email forwarding. tia, -reed -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
