RE: CFCONTENT and SP6A
Riddle me this Mr Watts, My server seems to have gone from parsing URLs from the left to parsing from the right. (NT4 SP5 IIS4 CF 4.0.1) While neither SP6 nor 6a has been applied, I have applied post-SP5 hot fixes. And what's an MS SP but the same ole hot fixes in a new package? So do we know which particular facet of SP6 changes the parsing order? Are there any other methods of (intentionally or unintentionally) affecting the parse order? T again IA Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: CFCONTENT and SP6A I was wondering if you could explain your comment about the direction it parses the URL - I don't quite understand what the issue involved is. If the URL is parsed from left to right by the server, it will stop at the first valid file name it finds, and treat everything after that file name as URL parameter data. For example, with this URL: http://www.myserver.com/myfile.cfm/myfile.csv the server will go to myfile.cfm, passing myfile.csv as URL data to it. This trick allows you to execute one file, myfile.cfm, while making the browser think it's asking for myfile.csv. -- 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.
RE: CFCONTENT and SP6A
I was wondering if you could explain your comment about the direction it parses the URL - I don't quite understand what the issue involved is. If the URL is parsed from left to right by the server, it will stop at the first valid file name it finds, and treat everything after that file name as URL parameter data. For example, with this URL: http://www.myserver.com/myfile.cfm/myfile.csv the server will go to myfile.cfm, passing myfile.csv as URL data to it. This trick allows you to execute one file, myfile.cfm, while making the browser think it's asking for myfile.csv. If, on the other hand, the server parses from right to left, it's going to be looking for the file myfile.csv in the directory myfile.cfm, which of course won't exist. Since many people using CFCONTENT are using this file naming trick, their scripts don't work under SP 6, which changes how URLs are parsed by the server. BTW, could this also affect file uploads? We've had problems uploading PDFs since installing SP6A, but it may be a coincidence. It could, but I'm not aware of any problem. If your PDFs are large files, you might want to test with other files of similar size. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 -- 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.
