When I read these messages, I checked one of my old websites that
uses paypal integration services and found that it stopped
working. Payments were getting processed but the results
confirmation didn't work. This is on Coldfusion 8.
Thanks to this thread I found the problem and fixed it..
So then is the symantec certificate newer? Should I also add
that? What is the link to it? They have so many certificates on paypal
Verisign certificate products have been taken over by Symantec.
2015-04-03 18:54 GMT+02:00 :
Payments were getting processed but the results
Paypal support is useless. I contacted them 3 times for another issue
last week and they couldn't help at all
At 04:11 PM 4/3/2015, you wrote:
Best option is to contact PayPal support with that question. They should be
able to point you to the valid certs.
I would also change all of your passwords on the server... if it was
spyware on your local browser they now have every password you
entered recently -
~|
Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!
I use paypal.. Couldn't be easier, and they give a discount on the
rates to nonprofits...
however, there is one big problem...
Bad people have been using my donation form to test stolen credit
cards. They use the stolen credit cards to make a small donation to
see if the cards work. I
It doesn't make sense to do it from cf scheduler because if CF is
locked up it won't execute. The windows scheduler always will!
At 07:21 PM 10/1/2014, Russ Michaels wrote:
Just use the previously mentioned commands that is all you need
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 22:57 PM, John M Bliss
Maybe replace the $ with #
At 03:40 PM 9/29/2014, you wrote:
I have just finished updating a large application to run on CF 11 but not
having any luck chasing down a particular issue with cfchart. Any any ideas
as to why $ITEMLABEL$ will not resolve in CF 11 but the same template
works just
I always like the easiest solution...
When you send the file, append a UUID to the filename then strip it
off when done.
If he tries to send 2 files with the same name, when you strip off
the UUID, check if that original filename is present already - if it
is, make it unique (add a _2 or
The heartbleed bug allowed anyone to ask my mail server to give them
the last few hundred bytes of data that passed through the server
including user names and passwords used to authenticate. No guessing needed.
Pretty serious bug. It doesn't only affect Hmail.. it also affects
many non
Which email server do you guys use?
I mention it here becuase it is one of the common mail servers to use for
cf.
It is? I have never heard of hmail until about 2 minutes ago.
--
~|
Order the Adobe Coldfusion
My hmail server was hacked - looks like the heartbleed bug. all of a
sudden it sent out 2 million emails from one of my accounts.
I checked the hmail server website and saw there is a fix... I
upgraded and changed all passwords and it appears ok for now.
I mention it here becuase it is one of
Check coldfusion's server monitor - in the statistics page, look for
cumulative server usage..I had a similiar problem and it turned
out to be a denial of service attack against 1 page.. and it did not
show up on google analytics. Look for a huge amount of traffic.
At 01:20 PM
to all these recent hacks and any future ones as CF8 will not
be getting anew new security hotfixes.
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Al Musella, DPM
muse...@virtualtrials.comwrote:
I am still on coldfusion 8... it is a nonprofit site.. and money is
tight.. cfpaymill requires cf 9
Google just notified me that they are shutting off the google
checkout service as of Nov 20..
the company they referred me to doesn't support coldfusion..
Will probably change to paypal.. anyone have any better suggestions?
What a pain in the neck.
I am still on coldfusion 8... it is a nonprofit site.. and money is
tight.. cfpaymill requires cf 9+
Paypal is cheaper for nonprofits.. I use them for the pay here
service.. we use that service at all of our events to accept credit
cards on the iphone.. it is 2.2% +.30 online and 2.7%
My server run a small nonprofit website. Has been good for years but
now is getting overwhelemed by a denial of service attack going on
for the last week and ramping up quickly - it was freezing a few
times a day at first but now has been freezing a few times an hour.
more than 99.9% of all
In a case like this, would this work:
create a /cfide/administrator/ directory in every website... and
have an index.cfm file there that looks like the real administrator
log in, but responds that every password is invalid... and also bans
that IP address from the rest of the websites on
I added another filter today...
I have always checked all form submissions for the bad keywords but I
noticed that many of the attacks seem to start with them entering 1
or -1 as the first and or last name. Probably too lazy to put more
keystrokes in when they are setting up the script.
So now
You can set the session timeout to about 45 minutes and it should
work.. if they try to submit the page using the same session the
next day, it will time out.
At 08:48 AM 2/16/2013, Rick Faircloth wrote:
What would be an appropriate length of time for a session variable
for a hacker who's
You have to be careful not to interfere with normal donations.
When I fill out forms using chrome, chrome fills in my name, address
and phone number. It might take me only 15 seconds to fill out my
donation form..
You can determine if he bypasses your form by setting a cookie on the
form
If they read in the form page and then submit it using a script for
many days without re-reading the original form, it will appear to the
server that they took days to fill. So testing for more than a few
hours should be good...
sessions might work but they should expire quickly... then if
/12/2013 12:06 PM, Al Musella, DPM wrote:
I came across an interesting way to get the country from the IP
address.. http://www.mximize.com/getting-country-by-ip-based-on-geolite
I might set this up and block non North American IPs...
i would check w/your client first. not everybody outside NA
I have just gone through this... A big problem is that the
owner complains and the credit card company charges you a penalty
and if many get through they can dump you.
At first, I banned the IP address when someone tried 3 times
unsuccessfuly. That worked for about a day then they would
I came across an interesting way to get the country from the IP
address.. http://www.mximize.com/getting-country-by-ip-based-on-geolite
I might set this up and block non North American IPs...
At 04:43 PM 2/11/2013, Les Mizzell wrote:
One site of mine for a dance company used to get a ton of
One thing that I do is run a scheduled task every 5 minutes which
retrieves my home page via cfhttp and compares it to the previous
version. IF there is any change, it sends me a text and email telling
me of the change.
I added a url paramater to the scheduled task that when present
adds a
The error might be before line 20... try removing the comments and
see if that makes a difference
At 03:32 PM 1/14/2013, you wrote:
Okay, so I found a different stand-alone set of login pages/code on
a different website, but when I try to go to the index.cfm page
(which previously worked
How about just straight javascript... detect the screen resolution
and document .write the source of the images based on the screen resolution
~|
Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!
I am on an older version of coldfusion - so this might not apply to you..
indexing a 50,000 page pdf would choke my coldfusion server so I
couldn't even attempt it.
I assume you have the date in a database before printing the pdf?
What I would do is search the source database for the data you
At 12:19 PM 12/3/2012, you wrote:
Anyone have any experience, comments using hmailserver with Coldfusion?
I use it.. Works nicely. Here is a short snippet that will create a
new email address via coldfusion. (the domain must already be set up).
cffunction name=createNewEmail
I just switched from google to paypal payments pro.. thought it would
be simple...
was banging my head against the wall all day. Was able to get the
sample code working but not my real account - kept getting security
problems and connection errors... then I found a blog post about
it.. all
perhaps set it up so that after 5 bad tries, instead of just banning
him (which displays a page that the website is experiancing
problems), we just not send it to our processor, but jsut return a
message that the transaction failed. So they would keep trying but
get bad information
I
I run a charity website and am getting a blitz of donation attempts.
It looks like they were trying a list of names and credit card
numbers that they had - but they must have been old because only 1
out of hundreds suceeded. They tried to donate $1 with different
names and credit card
, it is
unlikely they also have their 3dsecure login as well, unless they
garnered the card from a hacked PC with a keylogger trojan.
You copuld also use somehting like http://www.maxmind.com/ ,
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Al Musella, DPM
muse...@virtualtrials.comwrote:
I run a charity
the country? If it isn't USA or
Canada (or if it's just Vietnam) don't send it to the payment processor and
always return denied?
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Al Musella, DPM
muse...@virtualtrials.comwrote:
I run a charity website and am getting a blitz of donation attempts.
It looks
I had the same situation. I set up a web service on the public server
which returns a query object with all of the data to the private
server which then can update the private database.
I have an archive flag field on the table on the public server
which notes if the record needs to be
You might be better off installing cf9 on the machine, then using
windows virtual pc to create 2 seperate instances - one with cf7 and
one with cf10.. they will have different ip addresses, but you can
use a host file to name them something.. this way you can launch
them only when needed
I have been having problems for a long time when closing
dreamweaver... it would crash, or take forever and sometimes
scramble some files and not be able to reopen. I looked all over for
a solution but stumbled upon it myself..
It seems that I have too many files in my most frequently used
An easier way may be to set up a virtual PC with the version of cf
you use least often.. leave the other one on your computer..
Then just launch the virtual pc when you need that version. Set up a
hosts file on your computer so cf8.mydomain.com goes to the virtual pc.
Maybe there is a much easier way...
Instead of redirecting, just do a cfinclude of that next page to
place it inside the first page... this way the correct page gets indexed.
~|
Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!
You may also need to link in the original style sheet.
At 01:05 PM 11/10/2011, you wrote:
I have a column that I am retrieving from a SQL 08 database that
contains lots of word formatting.
here is how the dump looks:
ph2SUPPLIER: Scott Specialty Gases/h2 table
Beginner's issues are welcome here.
Just yesterday I posted the stupidest beginner's mistake and not
one person made fun of me!
At 06:44 PM 11/10/2011, you wrote:
The sad part is that CF is dying because potential newcomers to the
language do not have a thriving community with support for
Hi
I never used com before can someone help me translate this to coldfusion:
It will create an email account on the mail server programmatically!
I tried many variations of the cfobject tag to create the object but I get
Could not find the ColdFusion Component or Interface hMailServer.
I am using 32 bit windows server 2008 and 32 bit CF8
I read the version 8 docs already and searched google. I tried type=com
At 07:57 PM 11/9/2011, Leigh wrote:
Set obApp = CreateObject(hMailServer.Application)
That looks like VB syntax. CF's createObject requires the type
parameter
I got it.. Stupidest mistake I made in a long time.. I was trying to
run it on my test server.. which doesn't have hmail installed. When
I tried it on the live server it worked:)
CFOBJECT ACTION=Create
NAME=hmail
CLASS=hMailServer.Application
cfset
You could also move that to the first parameter.. .cfm?timestamp
At 02:29 PM 11/2/2011, you wrote:
Hi All.
I am hoping this reaches the group because I can't get to the site.
I need to append a variable to a url which just so happens to be timestamp.
The url is for a credit card processing
Also try to validate it. Some phones are fussy about that stuff. It
looks like you have mismatched div tags.
I figured out the problem...well, at least a solution.
Not a perfect one, but it's better.
I put in some JS to bring the focus to the first field
in the form. Seems like it was
You may get to a point where there is so much traffic in the SQL
server that the rest of the website slows down or stops
responding. I would use a cdn or set up a separate server to serve
the static images. Note that google recommends using a different
domain name for images (like
That is a nice captcha.. most of them are so hard for people to read
that it discourages some people, and I am dealing with people who
have brain tumors.
What my form does is ask the simple question: is this brain tumor
related. Defaults to no. If they don't change it to yes before
I had the same problem.. what I did is store the email addresses in
a database and then replace the email link with a link to a feedback
form on your website. When people want to email someone, they click
the link, fill out and submit the form. They never get to see the
actual email
This might not apply to your situation, but I have a few domain names
that lead to my same website (.com. .org as well as common mispelling).
What I do is detect the name used and redirect to the main domain
name when they first hit the website
At 12:01 PM 9/26/2011, you wrote:
It sure
This may be a stupid question - I never worked by the hour, but I do
sometimes hire people by the hour to do programming - but prefer
paying by by the job..
There is no way to know how much time was spent programming
something. What is to stop someone from charging $20 an hour, but
doubling
I am having the same problem.. Sometimes restarting the cold fusion
service and/or web publishing service fixes it but most of the time
doesn't. I saw something really strange in the performance monitor
that I can't understand. There is only 1 website running on the
server - with usually very
Using url variables have an advantage in that you can bookmark the
page and return to it or even share the page.
IF you want to hide them, you can use a form submission or even use ajax
At 04:10 PM 9/19/2011, you wrote:
@Jonah,
Thanks for the solution. Currently, I have been using the same
Perhaps there is something on the drive that is causing a problem? I
wouldn't put it into the next computer. Perhaps a rootkit?
Last time my computer died I replaced it with a Dell Precision
workstation. I treated myself nicely. I got a relatively small SSD
drive and a huge Buffalo external
am not great with javascript or jquery, but am
starting to try getting into it
So I don't get left completely behind.
I have no use for frameworks at this time so the method you provided is just
perfect and I can get me old head around it.
Terry
-Original Message-
From: Al Musella, DPM
mail server.
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Al Musella, DPM wrote:
The costs seem too high. It looks like it would cost about $86 a
month for a small instance.. and then I need coldfusion. Adobe
donated one licence of cf to us, but I would probably have to buy
that second license?
I do
Terry,
I see nobody gave a simple example.. here is one:
http://virtualtrials.com/testjquery.cfmhttp://virtualtrials.com/testjquery.cfm
view page source to see how it works.
Try submitting it first with nothing entered, then with something in
one of the fields
I am not great with
, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Al Musella, DPM wrote:
Hate to ask - I know I am supposed to google first - but I am
under a mandatory evacuation - have to leave by 5pm.. (half hour
ago:).. I did google and couldn't find a succinct way.
DO you know of a simple guide to setting up a cold fusion
sql server:)
Al
At 05:56 AM 8/27/2011, you wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Al Musella, DPM wrote:
Luckily, people will understand down time due to a hurricane.. not
too worried about a few minutes of data loss - I have a way to
recover in case there is a loss...
Sounds like you
(encrypting any person info)... so if worst case happens, I can
manually go back and fix things.
At 03:18 AM 8/26/2011, Jochem van Dieten wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Al Musella, DPM wrote:
I have my server in my office. The website runs a brain cancer
registry with pretty
Hi
I am getting a little worried about this hurricane.. we were just
told to evacuate on Saturday..
I have my server in my office. The website runs a brain cancer
registry with pretty important database stuff. More valuable than money:)
How would you approach setting up a redundant server
thanks!
I got it..
I just put together a simple test..
http://virtualtrials.com/iphone/apps/demos/virtualtrials/#homehttp://virtualtrials.com/iphone/apps/demos/virtualtrials
only the first choice works so far.. it is a simple look up a
doctor's phone number.. will fill in the rest later but
Hi
I need to write either an app for the iphone or at least a website
that looks like a app.. I have been looking around for toolkits and
there are an overwhelming number of choices that I don't know where to start.
I need:
1. easy coldfusion integration (so based on html not coco)
2.
I would do the one task..
you can also add a priority field to the database table.. high
priority ones get done at the assigned time. Lower priority can be
made to wait if there are too many other things going on at the time
At 06:17 PM 5/31/2011, you wrote:
Dan:
Thanks for the reply. In
He knows the IP address of the offender.. why not set up a firewall
to block all traffic from that entire subnet? If there is no
firewall, windows server can also block ip ranges
Michael has said (repeatedly!) that he won't bring the site back
online until he's sure the loopholes are closed
nesting, etc) - so see if the above helps.
Azadi
On 20/05/2011 01:13 , Al Musella, DPM wrote:
Hi
I have an urgent problem..
I created a website for a fundraising event that is going on all
month.. one function is to create fundraising teams, where people can
create a team and upload
Hi
I have an urgent problem..
I created a website for a fundraising event that is going on all
month.. one function is to create fundraising teams, where people can
create a team and upload a photo.
I wrote the code, tested it on the current version of chrome and
firefox and it worked
I am getting strange results.. In firebug, it says the status is
200 but there were no bytes received. and a view source shows
absolutely nothing. I turned on cf debuggin - to at least get debug
info - and still nothing at all.
. but there is a message about the cache.. perhaps my computer
if you can find anything.
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Al Musella, DPM
muse...@virtualtrials.comwrote:
I am getting strange results.. In firebug, it says the status is
200 but there were no bytes received. and a view source shows
absolutely nothing. I turned on cf debuggin - to at least
Try running fusionreactor and see what is running at the time you
have the problem It just helped me solve a tricky problem.. cold
fusion was hanging after running one template multiple
times.. worked perfectly when I tried it, hung the server when
others ran it. The template was
I have been looking for a an outside gateway that I can use
and thought I found the perfect one.. the amazon simple email
service... I wasted a lot of time getting it set up then found it
limits you to about 500 emails a day for a while until you prove you
are a good person and not a
I am pretty sure that can't work - anyone else know that it can?
At 01:44 AM 5/10/2011, you wrote:
in the meantime, try port 26 - it usually works fine (unless it is blocked).
Azadi
On 10/05/2011 08:36 , Al Musella, DPM wrote:
So - anyone have any ideas on what I can do from now until
That is what I thought at first - since I noticed that when I sent
out my newsletter, I didn't get a copy on my aol account but did get
it on my real email account (which was on the local mail server).
I called aol and they said they didn't block it... then I checked my
gmail account and I
Finally fixed!
What a pain in the neck it is to talk to the verizon people.. had to
go through quite a few people who don't understand that port 25 is
needed. They opened it up and everything started working.. 26 hour outage.
Of course, that was right after I set up a relay account at
Big problem..
I use verizon fios for my Internet connection. It is a business
class - static IPs and specifically allows web and email servers.
Was working really nice.. then today around 1pm, I couldn't send
email. My mail server (smartermail) log said couldn't connect to
server..
Musella, DPM [mailto:muse...@virtualtrials.com]
Sent: 10 May 2011 01:37
To: cf-talk
Subject: ISP blocking port 25
Big problem..
I use verizon fios for my Internet connection. It is a business
class - static IPs and specifically allows web and email servers.
Was working really
Try adding Val() around the arguments.photographerid as
319 : cfquery name=qPhotographer dataSource=#ipi_dsn#
320 : SELECT * FROM ipi_photographers
321 : WHERE id = cfqueryparam CFSQLType=CF_SQL_INTEGER
value=#val(arguments.photographerid)# /
322 :
Hi
I never seen that.. but the first thing I would look at is to set
up a way to see how many times that action page is run. Perhaps insert a
GetTickCount counter into a log file when the action page is
run.. First look to see how it works in IE, then try firefox.
At 06:55 PM 4/18/2011,
ColdFusion forums
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Al Musella, DPM
muse...@virtualtrials.com wrote:
I would love to see a good open source CF medical office
management program that includes electronic medical records as well as
billing.
There is a php based attempt going on at
http
I would love to see a good open source CF medical office
management program that includes electronic medical records as well as billing.
There is a php based attempt going on at
http://www.oemr.org/http://www.oemr.org/
They did an amazing job on some parts, but dropped the ball on
others.
I would set them up with a small server, locked in a closet in their
private office. The HIPAA rules weren't meant to stop you from doing
these things, just to make you implement some security.
A laptop is just too easy to steal.
Assuming this client is in the US, it would be smarter to find
Would the $15 per month option for mailchimp suit our needs? We
send out email from coldfusion - about 200,000 a month.. the $15 plan
says unlimited mail. Do they send all users on the same ip address
so if one of the users is blacklisted we all are?
Thanks for the suggestions.
Check to see if there is another file named CF_Location in the
customs tag directory or in the directory your template is in that is
calling the tag
At 03:34 PM 1/25/2011, you wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to implement custom tags into a website I'm working
with, but I'm not having much success with
Actually - that is a point in FAVOR of combining the 2. If you have
2 servers - one for database and one for Webserver/CF, a failure on
either one will bring down all of your websites. You double the
chance that there will be a problem.
I run a server that combines everything.. It only
Does RDS used from within dreamweaver have this problem also?
Perhaps a future version of Cold fusion / Dreamweaver could have a
more secure method to transfer and update files? Perhaps add in a
mini version control system with logging so we could easily see which
files were added or changed
I may be reading this wrong, but apparently they changed files on the
server so they no longer match what you have in the development server?
If so, just use one of the freeware programs that can sync 2
directories.. instead of synching, they also can compare 2
directories. Just look for
Sounds like a SQL problem more than a coldfusion problem..
look at some of the sql server tools that can be used to find
problems like this,
That wouldn't work if your page changes on each load.. for example,
mine has a banner ad that rotates with each load, a last updated date
that changes a few times a day, and a copyright notice that changes yearly...
so what I do is:
1. CFHTTP the page into a variable..
2. I surround
I had that problem a while back.. I shut down the ftp server and
luckily never had the problem again..
I also set up my home computer to check the index.cfm page of all of
my websites for changes. I get an email and text alert whenever one
of my index.cfm pages changes. I created a script to
the problem was that coldfusion was caching the database structure so
it didn't know that field was there.
After the cache was cleared, everything works.
At 11:38 AM 11/12/2010, you wrote:
That table has USER ID (varchar) , PASSWORD (varchar) and a bunch of
bit fields (default value (0)). No
Just wanted to mention it so others don't repeat it.
I have a webpage that lets you scroll through a few pages of listings
with a previous 50 / next 50 button. Someone complained that the
page was being cached on their phone and they were seeing old data. I
couldn't reproduce the problem,
I am glad you said that. I thought it was me. I never had a software
company be as rude to me as smartertools. They detected that I had
the software running on 2 servers and sent me a really rude invoice
asking me to pay for the second licence. I wrote back explaining how
the licence
I am new to facebook... I searched the web and everything to do with
cf and facebook looks so complicated.
All I need to do it create a cf function to post an entry on my own
facebook wall.
I have been using a rss feed to do something similar, but don't have
enough control and facebooks rss
://facebooksdk.riaforge.org
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Al Musella, DPM
muse...@virtualtrials.comwrote:
I am new to facebook... I searched the web and everything to do with
cf and facebook looks so complicated.
All I need to do it create a cf function to post an entry on my own
facebook wall.
I
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
Is it possibly related to using cookies and cflocation in the same
script? I am not sure how that was changed over the years, but I
remember seeing you can't use cookies and cflocation together?
~|
Order the Adobe
There will be a problem if this goes to aol, yahoo, gmail, att, etc..
if you send too many emails in a short period of time, they
blacklist you and the emails just disappear.
I send a newsletter out to about 12,000 people and a few years ago
experimented on how many I could send at one time..
http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Mastering_The_Back_Button_With_Javascripthttp://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Mastering_The_Back_Button_With_Javascript
At 01:34 PM 7/10/2010, you wrote:
hi,
i am storing user data in the session scope. when the user logs out
it runs a structclear(session) and a
When I use an included file, I set a variable = true. then in all
places where you might want to include it again, you check for that
variable, and if it is not present, include the file. if it is
present, you don't include it.
t 11:01 AM 6/18/2010, you wrote:
I am receiving the error
Interesting problem..
perhaps create a separate table of search terms and results.
When someone starts typing, after maybe 5 characters, search this
table and if found, display those results.
IF it is not in the search table, do a real search, but only retrieve
the top 5 matches- order by
1 - 100 of 397 matches
Mail list logo
