On Thursday 28 Feb 2008, Ben Doom wrote:
You can never completely eliminate the possibility of someone voting
early and voting often
Not without physical devices, no.
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On Thursday 28 Feb 2008, Porter, Benjamin L. wrote:
It is hard to automate reading captcha.
Or not.
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Hi Nick
I have had similar things happen in the past and found that its a corrupted
neo.xml file. As CF is constantly updating these files it may have been a
issue with the box that caused a corruption. Have a look at the particular
neo file and just try opening it in a browser.
If you dont back
hey Jose, thats the fella, thanks! It's a little annoying that i can't get
them to show up in the CF admin but this will do - thanks again.
On 29/02/2008, Jose Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Nick
I have had similar things happen in the past and found that its a
corrupted
neo.xml file. As
Cheers Barney and Dave, I'll end up with about 100 so that's good to know.
Adrian
-Original Message-
From: Barney Boisvert
Sent: 28 February 2008 16:40
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: OT - URL Rewriting, how many rules?
mod_rewrite is a drop in a bucket compared to the ocean of a JEE
stack,
no worries. ;)
Jose
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Nick Tong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hey Jose, thats the fella, thanks! It's a little annoying that i can't
get
them to show up in the CF admin but this will do - thanks again.
On 29/02/2008, Jose Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
QoQ (Query of queries) struggles with data types as ColdFusion is 'typeless'
while the QoQ engine needs to know types. It tries to figure out the types
of columns and often gets it wrong :(
Another thing, building a query string isn't required with ColdFusion in the
way you are doing it, have you
Memory allocated to the JVM. On our server we've seen errors related to Java
heap space on a number of occasions:
Error,jrpp-63,02/26/08,04:00:15,FTLAdminApp,Java heap space
Error,jrpp-663,02/21/08,20:38:01,FTLAdminApp,Java heap space
Error,jrpp-323,02/20/08,16:02:29,FTLAdminApp,Java heap
Another thing, building a query string isn't required with ColdFusion in the
way you are doing it, have you come from another language?
hi dominic, thanks for the response. i have come from VB but dont think this
explains the poor coding i still class myself as a newbie to coding even
I'm afraid I don't know the answer to the type issue. QoQ is problematic and
in the past I have had to look to other solutions where, if it were working,
QoQ would have been preferrable.
There may be a solution to do with explicitly typing the columns that
someone here can offer though.
How is
hi dominic, ok thanks for your help. unfortunately it is not a query built from
mysql that i could run the distinct on. it is a query that is built from the
contents of a ms excel spreadsheet.
its ok ill look for another solution, your right, its a real shame QoQ doesn't
work as it should as
Mass imports, world of pain!
On 29/02/2008, Richard White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi dominic, ok thanks for your help. unfortunately it is not a query built
from mysql that i could run the distinct on. it is a query that is built
from the contents of a ms excel spreadsheet.
its ok ill look
Pete,
I have a number of blog posts on JVM memory and links to other CF related
tuning of the JVM.
My latest post on it is a good start...
http://www.coldfusionmuse.com/index.cfm/2008/2/12/leaky.heap.jvm
-Mark
Mark A. Kruger, CFG, MCSE
(402) 408-3733 ext 105
www.cfwebtools.com
Also, use the L flag to stop processing rules.
Adrian
-Original Message-
From: Russ
Sent: 29 February 2008 14:27
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Help with Rewrite Rule! (circuit.fuseaction)
Put the RewriteRule for books.all first.
Russ
-Original Message-
From: cf coder
Sent:
What's to stop someone from stealing/hacking/gaining from friends
physical devices? I think we're down to fingerprints, DNA scans, and
retinal imaging.
But your point is taken. :-)
--Ben Doom
Tom Chiverton wrote:
On Thursday 28 Feb 2008, Ben Doom wrote:
You can never completely eliminate
What LDAP server are you using, Active Directory or something else?
You shouldn't need to query the password attribute.
If you are using Active Directory, you only need one CFLDAP tag. Just
pass in the username as domain\user or [EMAIL PROTECTED]. AD will let
any domain user query the
There is a limit, but hopefully Adobe will come up with 64bit support soon.
In the meantime, I'm having trouble setting the setting -Xmx 1280. CF7
doesn't like that. It works well with 1024. Is there a smaller limit for
1.4 JVM?
Russ
-Original Message-
From: Mark Kruger
I already tried that. This is the order:
RewriteRule /offers/books/([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+)(.*) /index.cfm?go=offers\.$1 [PT]
RewriteRule /offers(/books/.*) /index.cfm?go=offers.detailsbookid=${mapfile:$1}
I can browse this page (it's working):
http://mysite/offers/books/all
but when I try to browse
Put the RewriteRule for books.all first.
Russ
-Original Message-
From: cf coder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 9:07 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Help with Rewrite Rule! (circuit.fuseaction)
Thank you Kay for suggesting this. It has done the trick. I'm
It is quite surprising how many CF Servers go into production having just
the default JVM settings (0 to 512 heap).
I think that Adobe should have some choices during install... Maybe profiles
based on load and resources or whatever. I don't think that many people
understand that throwing CF on
I think that happens because quite often the person installing CF, knows
nothing about CF. At least that is the case with our data centers.
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Mark Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is quite surprising how many CF Servers go into production having just
the
Actually configuring compression is easy in IIS. It has a GUI for this as
well. It took me about 5 min to figure it out and implement. What is
difficult is per domain/web site compression. IIS does it for all domains
hosted on the box. If you want more granular control you will need HttpZip's
Mark Kruger wrote:
... there is a limit to how large the heap can be (on 32bit anyway).
-mark
Well there is a limit on a 64 bit system to. It is just a much bigger
limit.
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Thank you Kay for suggesting this. It has done the trick. I'm really glad I
don't have to change every single link on the site.
I have another nagging problem and would appreciate anybody's help. I'll try to
explain as best as I can.
I want to a RewriteRule that can do the following:
I have a
Mass imports, world of pain!
lol tell me about it!!!
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Archive:
and from there it gets messy and involves sharp objects.
..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.
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http://acoderslife.com
-Original Message-
From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 9:39 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Prevent users from voting twice.
Dave, Rick, Russ, John and Gerald,
Thank you all for your thoughts. To Gerald, you were probably referring to
IIS6.
My opinion still is, if feasible, the best option is, not to have/load
unnecessary heavy-duty javascripts in the first place, and to make
things/features more configurable by
Hmm... the extra 10 people is interesting. Doing a match on first name
and last name is really not a good idea for data integrity. A good example
is in my family. I am a Junior and my son is the 3rd. Simply matching
on first and last name would return one result for my father, my son, and
I.
My question is, why do I have to go to a temp file first
You don't. It is just a good idea to upload and manipulate your files away
from it's final destination.
and does the code I'm using below result in the upload being secure
It all depend on the security of the files final destination. If
Good Morning,
I have been working with cffile for the first time and in the process, read
several places that you should upload files to a temp location outside your
webroot for security reasons. My original problem was with trying to
eliminate spaces from file names...so now this is the process
I FTP to a unix server to grab 4 files multiple times a day. I have a
Coldfusion 8 windows 2003 server.
Today's Feb 29th 2008 files DON'T show up! If I use FIREFTP I can see them
in the directory, but connect with CFFTP I cannot see ANY file created with
a Date of Feb 29, 2008???
Anyone with ANY
A follow up... I setup a test ftp site on a WINDOWS 2003 box and cfftp CAN
SEE the file fine.
Solaris UNIX 5.8/8.0 intel version is the server I am connecting too, I
CANNOT SEE files created on the 29th using cfftp.
WEIRD.
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:51 AM, J W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I FTP
Hi Adrian,
I added the L flag but that didn't make any difference as I'm still getting the
error.
Also, use the L flag to stop processing rules.
Adrian
Put the RewriteRule for books.all first.
Russ
cfcoder
~|
Adobe®
Sounds like its the ftp server. I would google the ftp server version and
see if there are any work arounds.
On a hunch I would see if passive = true or vice versa does anything.
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:19 AM, J W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A follow up... I setup a test ftp site on a
Piet Bruins wrote:
Memory allocated to the JVM. On our server we've seen errors related to Java
heap space on a number of occasions:
Error,jrpp-63,02/26/08,04:00:15,FTLAdminApp,Java heap space
Error,jrpp-663,02/21/08,20:38:01,FTLAdminApp,Java heap space
Hi, i'm using an xslt file that loads my
page - which does not use a body.
The problem i have is that everytime i
open the page the focus is on the submit
button. I don't really want that - where I
just want no focus when the page opens
up. I geuss a javascript is needed but i
also
Also one note about js compression... We had a guy call us who was having
issues with our sites. I resolved them by not using js compression. I
believe he was using ie5.
Russ
-Original Message-
From: Don L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 10:06 AM
To:
Hello,
I've been upgrading our web servers from CF 7 to 8 and I'm not able to enable
cfstat on them when they are running CF 8. Every time I check the Enable
CFSTAT checkbox in the CF administrator, hit submit, and restart CF then log
back in and check the administrator the box is unchecked.
I don't see how it could be the ftp server since I can log in to that server
with FireFTP and see those files without issue.
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Gerald Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Sounds like its the ftp server. I would google the ftp server version
and
see if there are any
What do you want the vars to be rewritten into?
Russ
-Original Message-
From: Adrian Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 11:52 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: OT - URL Rewriting, an unknown number of items
Sorry again for the OT.
I have a URL in the form:
Sorry, I didn't say what I wanted out the other end...
something/item1/item2/item3
would become somefile.cfm?items=item1,item2,item3
The something/somefile parts aren't important, it's the items that I need.
Cheers.
-Original Message-
From: Jordan Michaels
Sent: 29 February 2008 16:59
The simplest way would be to write a rule for each item up to a max that you
think you'd hit
RewriteRule ^something/([^/])+/*$ /somefile.cfm?items=$1
RewriteRule ^something/([^/])+/([^/])+/*$ /somefile.cfm?items=$1,$2
RewriteRule ^something/([^/])+/([^/])+/([^/])+*$
David,
Whenever I've had problems figuring out our LDAP setup, I use Softerra's free
LDAP Browser (http://www.ldapbrowser.com/download.htm). You can browse entire
LDAP directories using this tool, allowing you to see all groups and attributes.
Carl
I'm having a difficult time with a client's
Just to clarify, are you wanting to deal with a list of variables, like so:
fruits = orange, apple, pear, etc
Or are you looking for item1, item2, item3 to contain values to
different variables?
Warm regards,
Jordan Michaels
Vivio Technologies
http://www.viviotech.net/
BlueDragon Alliance
In the meantime, I'm having trouble setting the setting -Xmx
1280. CF7 doesn't like that. It works well with 1024. Is
there a smaller limit for 1.4 JVM?
I was never able to reliably get 1.4 to use more than 1024MB on Windows
Server 2003, myself.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
There's not a way to do an arbitrary number that I know of, other than
using recursive redirection. At a certain point, however, I'd just
start using the query string; that's what it's for. The path is for
specific requests, but if you're adding additional information to the
request (not
I'm assuming here that you want to deal with them in CF, once you've
gotten to your processing page.
I'd probably use either a replace or a regex to remove the /with/ and
whatever other known elements need to be removed from the URL string.
Then, I'd just loop over it as a list with / as a
Slaps head
You are partially right. It is an issue with the ftp client CF uses: apache
commons ftp 1.4.x
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NET-188
http://blogs.lodgon.com/johan/Leap_year_issues_in_apache_commonsnet
I found these here:
Sorry again for the OT.
I have a URL in the form:
/with/item1/item2/item3/
Where there can be any number of items.
Is there a RegEx to deal with this?
I could cap the number of items to something acceptable, but either way
would be find.
Thanks.
Adrian Lynch
Related?:
http://www.flatpackedworld.co.uk/blog/index.cfm/2008/2/28/Coldfusion-possible-Leap-Year-bug
Neil
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:47 PM, J W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't see how it could be the ftp server since I can log in to that
server
with FireFTP and see those files without
Would using the end of string character ($) help with limiting things?
Adrian
-Original Message-
From: cf coder
Sent: 29 February 2008 14:38
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Help with Rewrite Rule! (circuit.fuseaction)
I already tried that. This is the order:
RewriteRule
Ian,
Yes... I think it is actually a theoretical limit... Right? Like 17,000 gigs
or something? Does anyone know a number?
-Mark
-Original Message-
From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 8:50 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: How much memory should be
My opinion still is, if feasible, the best option is, not to
have/load unnecessary heavy-duty javascripts in the first
place, and to make things/features more configurable by
design. In the case of cf8's integration with FukEditor, as
some else has alluded on a separate thread before, it
Russ,
I have multiple CF 7 servers using 1280 - but remember that your other
memory switches come into play as well (permsize, maxpermsize, newsize etc).
The aggregate heap can't go over a certain amount of contiguous memory.
-Mark
-Original Message-
From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL
Instead of trying to rewrite the list this way, wouldn't it make more
sense to do something like:
^something/(.+) /somefile.cfm?items=$1
Then you could traverse the item list in CF using / as a delimiter, and
not have to have multiple rules for the URLS.
Of course, that all assumes that the
The problem with that is, I have 40+ rules in place already and the items
can be at the end of all of them.
Could I do something like this?
^something/?(item1)?/?(item2)/?(item3)/?(item4)/?(item5)/?(item6)/?
Rewrite to:
somefile.cfm?items=$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6
Which could turn into any one of:
Thank you for your time, inputs, Dave, and some of your points seem
reasonable..., I'm very lousy in spelling among many other shortcomings :)
Don
First, perhaps you shouldn't call it FukEditor. The actual name is
problematic enough.
Second, I love CF a lot, but it's not Adobe's flagship
Thanks Ben! I did think this at the beginning, not sure why I gave up on the
idea :OD
Adrian
-Original Message-
From: Ben Doom
Sent: 29 February 2008 17:39
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: OT - URL Rewriting, an unknown number of items
Instead of trying to rewrite the list this way, wouldn't
Russ wrote:
In the meantime, I'm having trouble setting the setting -Xmx 1280. CF7
doesn't like that. It works well with 1024. Is there a smaller limit for
1.4 JVM?
The number you specify must be available as a continuous memory block.
If your system loads lots of programs before CF or
Don,
I'm going to try to be nice here. I'm quitting smoking right now, so if
I seem snappy try not to take it personally.
Adobe has given us tools, within CF, to do things that most backend,
server-side developers never (or rarely) get into. It made them dead
simple, used the best and most
My opinion still is, if feasible, the best option is, not to
have/load unnecessary heavy-duty javascripts in the first
place
I am sure that the CF development team wrestled with these issues and did
the best that they could with the time frame and what they had to work with.
IMO they did an
Russ,
Not so fast... If you are using 7 gigs already then the issue is not how
much memory you have free total.. The issue is are there enough blocks of
contiguous memory available to equal the heap size you are targeting. On a
server running JUST an operating system (say Win2000 or 03) and 2
3. Use something else that's not integrated.
4. develop your own ;-)
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Thanks.
I have 12GB of ram and 5GB+ is free. I kinda doubt that I don't have
continuous 1280MB available.
Russ
-Original Message-
From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 12:58 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: How much memory should be allocated to the
Whoa Do you know which patch? Was it one of the
auto-update ones? We should write that down. That would be
one of those things that would take forever to figure out.
It was an auto-update patch, and I discovered the problem in a client's
production environment (!) of about six clustered
Dave,
Whoa Do you know which patch? Was it one of the auto-update ones? We
should write that down. That would be one of those things that would take
forever to figure out.
-mark
-Original Message-
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 1:05 PM
You could use cfhttp to load the xml data into a variable, then parse
the contents on a successful retrieval.
--Ben Doom
Che Vilnonis wrote:
How can I fail gracefully when using xmlParse and the feed is not
available/online?
cfset xmlFeed =
How can I fail gracefully when using xmlParse and the feed is
not available/online?
cfset xmlFeed =
xmlParse(http://www.somedomainwithrssfeed.com/keyword.xml;)
Use try/catch.
When using cfhttp, you could always use cfif
findNoCase(200, cfhttp.statusCode) to test for success.
How is
The number you specify must be available as a continuous
memory block. If your system loads lots of programs before CF
or loads programs into non-optimal places there may be less
memory available.
I ran into an interesting case of this a while back, when a Windows Server
2003 patch
How can I fail gracefully when using xmlParse and the feed is not
available/online?
cfset xmlFeed =
xmlParse(http://www.somedomainwithrssfeed.com/keyword.xml;)
When using cfhttp, you could always use cfif findNoCase(200,
cfhttp.statusCode) to test for success. How is it done with xmlParse? I'd
OK. Just thought there might be some flag in the xmlparse function that
might say there was a connection problem.
-Original Message-
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 2:15 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Failing gracefully when using xmlParse()...
Knew that. Thought xmlparse had something similar baked into it.
-Original Message-
From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 2:09 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Failing gracefully when using xmlParse()...
You could use cfhttp to load the xml data into a
Yup.. I bet this is the issue. Weird. I guess I will be changing time stamps
on those files with TOUCH on the Unix server until tomorrow, and hopefully
it will go back to normal tomorrow.
Jeff
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Gerald Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Slaps head
You are
Yup. I hear ya. I just thought I might be able to write a few less lines of
code. :)
No biggie...
-Original Message-
From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 2:17 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Failing gracefully when using xmlParse()...
Xmlparse assumes
Xmlparse assumes that any preliminary checks and validations have been
performed and that the string being passed in is well-formed XML.
I can see what you are saying, but xmlparse could receive its input from
absolutely anywhere so it wouldn't really work very well for xmlparse to
try and catch
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Has anyone worked with the TIGER/Line Data in Coldfusion. I am trying to
convert a PHP script over to Coldfusion to utilize this data and running
into some problems and would like to chat about it. I would like to
create my own Web Service
Graham Pearson wrote:
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Has anyone worked with the TIGER/Line Data in Coldfusion.
No I have not but I would love to ease drop on the conversation. You
may get slightly broader help if you just bring up what the actual PHP
code does that you
Che Vilnonis wrote:
I'd rather not use a cftry/cfcatch block.
Thanks, Che
Why not? It's the first thing that popped into my mind and seems
eminently appropriate. If you want to do something differently then the
generally accepted way to do something, then it would help to know the
James Buckingham wrote:
The log file was from the failing instance. It was residing in the
C:\JRuns\Logs\ folder.
Is there anything from the Clusterable service in your *-event.log on
the failing or other instances? At the very least you should see some of
it when the instance starts or
Have you seriously looked at what Ext offers?
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Claude Schneegans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3. Use something else that's not integrated.
4. develop your own ;-)
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mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles:
http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/
Its a little early in the release of Windows Server 2008 but since I
want to upgrade from Window 2000, I wanted to see if anyone:
1) Has installed it
2) Has had any issues running CF on it
Any feedback would be awesome.
Thanks,
Rey
Hey Rey,
Been running 2008 and CF8. So far so good. Haven't tried it under a heavy
load yet though.
It takes longer for 2008 to boot up, and takes alot more resources, but it
seems stable so far. I'll probably run this as a test server for quite
awhile before I move it into production though.
So I'm currently checking out the wild, wholly world of CFML - things like the
Smith Project, Railo, Coral Web Builder (is that even an active project
anymore? looks like last update was 2005?), and BlueDragon.
I set some stuff up on BlueDragon's free version and was hoping to show some
other
Is the free version of the BlueDragon server local ip only?
No. BlueDragon 7 Server is free for multiuser applications. Any of the other
versions of BlueDragon 7 (BlueDragon 7.0 Server JX, BlueDragon 7.0 for J2EE
Application Servers, BlueDragon for the Microsoft .NET Framework) are not
free, but
Certainly multi-user, but I believe it is free only for non-commercial
applications. But don't take my word for it, ask on the newatalanta forum.
-Original Message-
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 10:33 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: BlueDragon Fee
Is the free version of the BlueDragon server local ip only?
No. BlueDragon 7 Server is free for multiuser applications.
Really? I've having a dickens of a time connecting to it from another computer.
I've got Smith set up on port 8081. My laptop is assigned a local subnet
address of
I can pull pages from the laptop itself
(localhost or 127.0.0.1) but if I try to use http://192.168.0.
5:8082/insert page here from another machine on the local area
network the page times out.
Ok - its late Friday evening and I've got my dunce cap on. Once I added '8082'
to allowed ports
But since I brought Coral Web Builder up does anyone know anything more about
that product? It seemed like the biggest benefit they tried to sell themselves
on was that you paid for the server once and then you could deploy it on as
many machines as possible (the idea being to run CF apps
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