Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Andy Allan
ColdFusion 7 is no longer supported by Adobe. Therefore only customers who have extended support, which you pay for, are entitled to a fix for CF7. But has already been pointed out, just restrict your /CFIDE. Andy On 11 August 2010 22:17, Gerald Guido gerald.gu...@gmail.com wrote: Wait a

ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial

2010-08-12 Thread John M Bliss
This has been out for a few weeks but I don't remember it being announced here so, just in case... http://www.amazon.com/ColdFusion-Developer-Tutorial-John-Farrar/dp/1849690243/ -- John Bliss IT Professional @jbliss (t) / http://www.brandiandjohn.com

CF9.0.1 Updater - stuck updating stubs?

2010-08-12 Thread Gabriel Ortiz
Hi, I'm running the CF9.0.1 updater and it seems to be taking a long time doing this: Installing... C:\Coldfusion9$$stubs Does anyone recall seeing this message for a long time? Does it eventually finish or is it stuck? Thank you.

Re: Upgrade CF5 to CF8 and undefined session

2010-08-12 Thread Jean-Jacques DONATE
Thanks everybody for your helps. I'm confused, I didn't answered your questions because i thought that a mail was sent for every answer, for me no mail = no answer. I found today my stupid mistake : the name of the application was CFAPPLICATION NAME=Xx in then first Application.cfm and

Re: getting path of not existent directory

2010-08-12 Thread Michael Grant
Here's a great beginner guide: http://www.addedbytes.com/for-beginners/url-rewriting-for-beginners/ http://www.addedbytes.com/for-beginners/url-rewriting-for-beginners/ On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Matthew P. Smith m...@smithwebdesign.netwrote: Any way you could provide an example? I

Re: ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial

2010-08-12 Thread Rick Mason
John, I was one of the technical editors of the book. If people are curious it was almost completely rewritten and additional chapters were added on things like unit testing (MXUnit) and ORM. I'm happy to see CF books selling well enough that their number is increasing ;). I just bought the

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Dan Baughman
Millions of sites applying one patch is better than Millions of sites applying Millions of patches ^^ http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-issues-record-number-of-patches/ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology

Extracting data from Java ByteArrayOutputStream

2010-08-12 Thread Jeff Chastain
I am working with a SOAP web service in CF 8.0.1 and the filecontent attribute of the cfhttp response is a java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream. If I use the toString() method to convert this to text, I can see the XML response data plus the binary image strings that I was expecting. The problem

Re: cfqueryparam list attribute

2010-08-12 Thread Matthew Lowrey
null=#!isDefined('myVar') OR !ListLen('myVar')# Thanks Carl, I haven't actually tried both together, I've tried them by themselves (as well as isNumeric and was unsuccessful 100% of the time. I'll give this one a try next time I find a spot it could be used and tested. Thank you!

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Adrocknaphobia
Just a reminder, we published a ColdFusion 9 Server Lockdown Guide back in June. It provides details and instructions for securing the ColdFusion Administrator. While the guide was written for ColdFusion 9 specifically, most of the tips will apply to version 6+.

Re: Extracting data from Java ByteArrayOutputStream

2010-08-12 Thread Dave Watts
 I am working with a SOAP web service in CF 8.0.1 and the filecontent attribute of the cfhttp response is a java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.  If I use the toString() method to convert this to text, I can see the XML response data plus the binary image strings that I was expecting.  The problem

Re: Extracting data from Java ByteArrayOutputStream

2010-08-12 Thread Jeff Chastain
Dave, Per my message earlier this week (http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336189), when I try cfinvoke or createObject( webservice ..., I am getting an AxisFault error that I cannot get around. When I use cfhttp to post, I am getting the expected response

Re: hostek.com - daily outages

2010-08-12 Thread Brian Anderson
hi guys, now before i get the use a dedicated vps response, i am fully aware a shared hosting account isn't going to be as solid as a vps... however, hostek.com... we are getting cannot read response from server errors multiple times a day across several websites. the queries

Trying to understand application.cfc...

2010-08-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
Ok...I worked with application.cfc's for awhile and things seemed to work fine, but then I had some issues and went back to old reliable application.cfm. Now, however, I'd like to try again to get a grasp on how to use application.cfc's. First question: Why can I set the application.website

re: Trying to understand application.cfc...

2010-08-12 Thread Jason Fisher
I do exactly that, Rick, and it works fine. All my app vars are set in onApplicationStart, except for the constants like 'name', which I set outside the methods: cfcomponent output=false cfscript this.name = myAppName; this.applicationTimeout =

RE: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Jacob
Same here... restricted by internal IP address and username/password. -Original Message- From: Andrew Grosset [mailto:rushg...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 2:08 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches phew!! for a moment I was

RE: Trying to understand application.cfc...

2010-08-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for the reply, Jason... Well...I swear, the first time I tried to set application.website inside onApplicationStart, I got an error saying application.website wasn't defined. Now, for some reason, it works. The only thing I added was output=false as you have in your example. At first,

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Al Musella, DPM
Is it sufficient to restrict access to /cfide/administrator? The easiest solution is to restrict access to /CFIDE/, which unfortunately only a slight majority of Coldfusion sites have done. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion

Re: Trying to understand application.cfc...

2010-08-12 Thread Eric Cobb
You should be able to set that variable in OnApplicationStart() with no problems. In fact, as you said, that's the preferred place to set it. You must have something else going on that's causing the problem. Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com

RE: Trying to understand application.cfc...

2010-08-12 Thread Andrew Scott
Rick, Is it highly possible that you had run the application, and then placed that code into onApplicationStart? If this is the case then the undefined variable would make sense, and why it works for you now. Regards, Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/ -Original Message- From:

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Dave Watts
Is it sufficient to restrict access to /cfide/administrator? You may also want to restrict access to /CFIDE/adminapi. 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

RE: Trying to understand application.cfc...

2010-08-12 Thread Paul Day
Rick, One thing I do is to place a piece of code into the onRequestStart method to reinit the application variables. This will let you set variables in the onApplicationStart method and be able to change them without having to restart ColdFusion or wait for the application to timeout. In you

RE: Trying to understand application.cfc...

2010-08-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
That's most likely what happened... -Original Message- From: Andrew Scott [mailto:andr...@andyscott.id.au] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 2:31 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Trying to understand application.cfc... Rick, Is it highly possible that you had run the application, and then

RE: Trying to understand application.cfc...

2010-08-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for the tip! -Original Message- From: Paul Day [mailto:p...@nucomsolutions.com] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 2:36 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Trying to understand application.cfc... Rick, One thing I do is to place a piece of code into the onRequestStart method to reinit

Re: Adobe Security update: Hotfix available for ColdFusion

2010-08-12 Thread James Skemp
Secunia advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/40909/ Being stuck on CF 7, does anyone know if locking down the CF administrator pages via Windows authentication is sufficient? (Versus the alternative of ... ?) Thanks, ~James I believe it addresses a potential vulnerability in

Re: Adobe Security update: Hotfix available for ColdFusion

2010-08-12 Thread Brett Hellman
test On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:44 AM, James Skemp jsk...@wisbar.org wrote: Secunia advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/40909/ Being stuck on CF 7, does anyone know if locking down the CF administrator pages via Windows authentication is sufficient? (Versus the alternative of ... ?)

Re: Adobe Security update: Hotfix available for ColdFusion

2010-08-12 Thread Gerald Guido
Being stuck on CF 7, does anyone know if locking down the CF administrator pages via Windows authentication is sufficient? (Versus the alternative of ... ?) As a related question, If I wanted to restrict access to the CF Admin would .htaccess on Centos Linux/Apache be sufficient? Or should I put

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Larry Lyons
I get 2,800,000,000 results. If you google for inurl:*.cfm You get 259 million results. andy Richard Brain of ProCheckUp commented “This is a trivial attack which can be performed easily by a competent engineer; ProCheckUp thanks Adobe for consciously working with us to produce a

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Procheckup news
For the bare minimum restrict access to the following directories:- /CFIDE/adminapi/ /CFIDE/administrator/ /CFIDE/componentutils/ /CFIDE/wizards/ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: Adobe Security update: Hotfix available for ColdFusion

2010-08-12 Thread Rick Root
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Gerald Guido gerald.gu...@gmail.com wrote: As a related question, If I wanted to restrict access to the CF Admin would .htaccess on Centos Linux/Apache be sufficient? Any method of securing /CFIDE/Administrator/* so that CFM pages are not executed until after

Re: cfqueryparam list attribute

2010-08-12 Thread Matthew Lowrey
null=#!isDefined('myVar') OR !ListLen('myVar')# Thanks Carl, I haven't actually tried both together, I've tried them by themselves (as well as isNumeric and was unsuccessful 100% of the time. I'll give this one a try next time I find a spot it could be used and tested. Thank you!

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Tony Bentley
Can someone pass me the Perl regex to allow the scripts folder? I'm just not getting it on my own. So the rule would match anything that contains /CFIDE/ *except /CFIDE/SCRIPTS/ case insensitive. Thanks in advance for saving me hours and hours of trial and error.

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Pete Freitag
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Tony Bentley cascadefreehee...@gmail.comwrote: Can someone pass me the Perl regex to allow the scripts folder? I'm just not getting it on my own. So the rule would match anything that contains /CFIDE/ *except /CFIDE/SCRIPTS/ case insensitive. You can put

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Tony Bentley
Thanks Pete. Unfortunately, I'm dealing with a virtual directory issue and ghetto architecture in IIS. I was able to figure out how to lock it down using the firewall and http proxy rules. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Pete Freitag p...@foundeo.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:21 PM,