RE: Chinese language

2000-07-11 Thread Mike Sheldon
an I define the datatype to normal datatype such as varchar? I still can store the data that create using chinese word processor and the information would still store into the database, right? Thanks in advance. Kind regards, Loo -Original Message----- From: Mike Sheldon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Chinese language

2000-07-10 Thread Mike Sheldon
>>actually there are some non-english language site names, i know of a thai language "dns" service which i *think* operates like a bookmark service.<< The base domain name is still 7-bit ascii. There are a couple of services that perform some interesting, limited hacks in order to allow non-ascii

RE: Chinese language

2000-07-10 Thread Mike Sheldon
Cold Fusion does not support Unicode characters. I'm not sure if there's a Chinese language version of CF or not, Allaire's site is not fully functional. >>3. I was told there are chinese character domain name and email address, is that true? if yes, how do we search for such email addresses and

RE: Testing Assignment

2000-07-10 Thread Mike Sheldon
True, it will fail for all IPs in the 128.XXX.XXX.XXX range or higher. Worse yet, the behavior changed from CF 4.0 to 4.5 I had several functions from a year ago that had to be hacked badly in order to keep them working. The moral of the story? CF sucks giant rocks when it comes to binary arithme

RE: Allaire Certification Program

2000-07-10 Thread Mike Sheldon
le on Request -Original Message- From: Larry W. Virden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 06:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Allaire Certification Program From: "Mike Sheldon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would look for someone who *refused* to take i

RE: Allaire Certification Program

2000-07-08 Thread Mike Sheldon
If you don't like it, unsubscribe. It's a valid topic for the list. Maybe you should drink less and code more? Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Jordan McDonald [mailto

RE: Allaire Certification Program

2000-07-08 Thread Mike Sheldon
>>if you were to really call yourself a proffesional then you would no the commands anyway<< And I would disagree heavily. I program actively* in six languages, I always keep a function reference close at hand so I can check function arguments and parameters. There's no way I can memorize every p

RE: USPS calculator?

2000-07-07 Thread Mike Sheldon
>>I just tried their example page and it took something like 10 seconds for the results to come back.<< Not usually. The one downside to this service is that queries are affected by the "longest response time". In other words, if you query UPS, USPS, and FedEx, and FedEx takes 10 sec to respond,

RE: USPS calculator?

2000-07-07 Thread Mike Sheldon
Try CF_InterShipper http://www.desertraven.com/intershipper.php InterShipper provides quotes for several shipping companies, including UPS, USPS, FedEx, etc... Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -O

RE: linebreaks in WDDX

2000-06-21 Thread Mike Sheldon
URLencode the WDDX packet before appending to the URL Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Deanna L. Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 14:

RE: Webmaster for webmaster.aol.com

2000-06-18 Thread Mike Sheldon
Don't hold your breath on getting a response from AOL. Even when they used to respond, the context of the response was essentially, "tough luck, it's your problem." To prevent AOL from caching your pages, place the following statements in your application.cfm page:

RE: test 6/17/00 15:00 PST

2000-06-18 Thread Mike Sheldon
I'd say that the list isn't fixed, since this took almost a day. Heck, A few of my messages that I sent over a week and a half ago just showed up today. I would HIGHLY recommend that this list be moved to a platform that can reliably handle the task. Mailman on Linux would be my pick. I've never

RE: Professional vs. Enterprise

2000-06-17 Thread Mike Sheldon
>>Assuming I'm not clustering, what's the difference between Professional and Enterprise?<< Sandbox security and native database drivers. Sandbox is only an real issue if you are an ISP, or where you have "untrusted" developers. Native drivers are only an issue if you are using one of the few d

RE: There's something odd going on with this list...

2000-06-17 Thread Mike Sheldon
There's something DESPERATELY wrong with the list. A look at the headers from some of those repeating messages shows there's one or more loops in the mail delivery. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request ---

RE: Has the list gone buggy??

2000-06-07 Thread Mike Sheldon
No, it's not just you. From what I can see in the headers of a few messages, there's a REALLY nasty mail loop going on that is causing messages to be re-sent over and over. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Requ

RE: UPS Shipping Costs

2000-06-07 Thread Mike Sheldon
How many times are you going to send the exact same message? We're up to four at the moment. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Michael Chiu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Se

RE: Jumping Sessions??

2000-06-01 Thread Mike Sheldon
If there is a proxy on the internal network, you may need to explicitly tell it not to cache pages. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Michael

RE: Lost Data

2000-05-31 Thread Mike Sheldon
Is the SQL database still available? If not, I'd say you're toast. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: ldang {Lily Dang} [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 3

RE: Determining a browsers SSL encryption level

2000-05-25 Thread Mike Sheldon
-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 11:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Determining a browsers SSL encryption level This doesn't seem to be working on NES. Any ideas? -Original Message- From: Mike Sheldon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sen

RE: Can you write CFX Tags in Java

2000-05-25 Thread Mike Sheldon
Yes, you can write tags in Java. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: aslam bajaria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 09:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

RE: OT- Premiere Partners

2000-05-25 Thread Mike Sheldon
It depends on the program. For consulting partners, you must have ten ColdFusion developers, and have at least 1 million dollars in annual ColdFusion-related income. Plus, a $2500 partner fee. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP

RE: insert command with attributes

2000-05-25 Thread Mike Sheldon
You end up with too many commas Your query ends up looking like this: INSERT INTO yada (field1,field2,field3,) VALUES (value1,value2,value3,) You can't have extraneous punctuation in the query. I'd suggest you build the field and value strings BEFORE the query, so you have an op

RE: Determining a browsers SSL encryption level

2000-05-24 Thread Mike Sheldon
CGI.HTTPS_KEYSIZE Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 10:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PRO

RE: How to determine client encryption level

2000-05-24 Thread Mike Sheldon
CGI.HTTPS_KEYSIZE Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 10:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How t

RE: CFHTTP and SSL

2000-05-24 Thread Mike Sheldon
It's not an issue in CF 4.5 And, I've found that it's not an issue with previous versions of CF if IE 5.0 is installed on the server. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From:

RE: SETCLIENTCOOKIES="No"

2000-05-23 Thread Mike Sheldon
SETCLIENTCOOKIES does not turn cookies off. It merely specifies default behavior for the session identifier for session variables. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: GE [

RE: decrypt form variable... WAY more than you wanted to know.

2000-05-21 Thread Mike Sheldon
Not very much info there... Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Stephen M. Aylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 08:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: decrypt form variable... WAY more than you wanted to know.

2000-05-21 Thread Mike Sheldon
I *think* CFHASH is using MD5, but I really don't know. These discussions have me considering writing an encryption tag myself. Export regs have discouraged me from attempting this previously. However, with the new regs, I may go ahead and do it now. If I do it, it will not be commercial. All of

RE: decrypt form variable... WAY more than you wanted to know.

2000-05-21 Thread Mike Sheldon
8 bit sounds a bit (ok, a lot) low, but CBC does help. Maybe the stream could start with a random word (you know, like Unix salting). David Mike Sheldon wrote: > > >>Care to suggest a few? I've seen several, but I'm not sure how to evaluate > them. > > The trick is,

RE: decrypt form variable...

2000-05-20 Thread Mike Sheldon
ing public-key cryptography. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Greg Saunders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 18:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: d

RE: Problems with other CF and other Linux-distributions

2000-05-20 Thread Mike Sheldon
You can run it under any distribution you want, so long as it's an x86 architecture. Just don't expect support from Allaire if you're not running on RedHat. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Origin

RE: CFStudio app Complaint...who do I complain to?

2000-05-19 Thread Mike Sheldon
I was a participant in the Beta program. I reported this issue very early in the beta, and kept complaining about it every time they released a subsequent beta. All of the points you make were made to them. I was not even given the courtesy of an acknowledgement from them. Just like the issues w

RE: Mac's and CFFile with IE

2000-05-19 Thread Mike Sheldon
What version of IE? Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Chris Getner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 11:51 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Mac's and

RE: Verifying Email Address

2000-05-19 Thread Mike Sheldon
There are several tags that can verify that an email address is syntactically valid, and one or two that will check to see if the domain actually exists. However, there is no reliable way to determine if a specific address is valid short of sending a message and getting a reply. Michael J. Sheld

RE: Anyone integrated CF w/ FedEx API?

2000-05-19 Thread Mike Sheldon
FedEx's licensing prohibits distribution of software for integrating with their service. In other words: You can write it for yourself, but you can't give what you did to anyone else. Needless to say, this has a chilling effect on anyone who would be interested in writing such a tag, since they w

RE: Will the last person leaving Cold Fusion please turn out the lights?

2000-05-18 Thread Mike Sheldon
Hrrmm... The following does *not* include Mac osX, since that OS is not really a Mac OS, it's BSD. Fact: Macs do have fewer security issues. Fact: This is not necessarily due to superior design. Most security breaches are not caused by the OS itself, but by network software running on those mac

RE: Installation path...

2000-05-18 Thread Mike Sheldon
Verity cannot handle paths with spaces when storing it's collections. That's why CF won't let you do that. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Luis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Shipping Tag?

2000-05-18 Thread Mike Sheldon
Probably this one: http://www.desertraven.com/intershipper.php Handles nine major carriers. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Lon Lentz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

PATCHED "You have nice cookies .. mind if I have a look?"

2000-05-17 Thread Mike Sheldon
Whadya know? Microsoft released a patch for this security hole (and a few others) sometime today. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/download/critical/patch6.htm Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request ---

RE: decrypt form variable...

2000-05-17 Thread Mike Sheldon
>From looking at it, it's definitely different. However, it's also very definitely a stream-type cipher, not DES. This one produces exactly 2n bytes ciphertext for every byte plaintext input. I don't think I'd trust this one to casual cryptanalysis either. Using this one may be more convenient,

RE: "You have nice cookies .. mind if I have a look?"

2000-05-17 Thread Mike Sheldon
I'd go hit them with a very large hammer. Banks should know better than to store sensitive information in cookies. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Paul Ihrig [mailto:[

RE: CF and Encryption

2000-05-16 Thread Mike Sheldon
Allaire has not revealed what algorithm they are using for the encrypt() and decrypt() functions. However, given the "tone" of the few mentions they have made of it, I highly suspect that it's someone's home-built XOR routine that wouldn't stand up to analysis by a 5 year old with an abacus. It's

RE: "You have nice cookies .. mind if I have a look?"

2000-05-16 Thread Mike Sheldon
>>Even the one(s) only accessable on the specified domain set in the cookie? ALL of them. Using a specially encoded URL, I was able to access ANY cookie on the user's system. The only thing the attacker needs to know is what domain's cookies he wants from the user. Michael J. Sheldon Internet A

RE: "You have nice cookies .. mind if I have a look?"

2000-05-16 Thread Mike Sheldon
>>As an added measure of security you can encrypt the cookie with the IP address as the key...<< If you're using the user's IP address, you'll likely get a surprise. Some proxy servers, most notably AOL's, will rotate through several IP addresses in a single session. The worst I've seen so far wa

RE: "You have nice cookies .. mind if I have a look?"

2000-05-16 Thread Mike Sheldon
Summary of the problem: In a nutshell, IE does not urldecode the request string before feeding it to the routine that decides which cookie to send. I've written my own test routines, and exploiting this hole is unbelievably simple. All IE browsers on all MS platforms are vulnerable. The really

RE: Slightly OT: Lighten things up a little

2000-05-13 Thread Mike Sheldon
>>After flipping a jeep Cherokee last year, getting in a three car pileup with my probe, and getting two tickets all in one year...<< Have you considered taking the bus? Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Reques

RE: OT: Anyone know about firewall software?

2000-05-12 Thread Mike Sheldon
Sounds like you need a firewall/router. Linux with ipchains can do this quite well. There are also plenty of standalone products that can do it. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message-

RE: CFMAIL and AOL

2000-05-10 Thread Mike Sheldon
Show the code. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Tara Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 10:23 To: CF-TALK Subject: CFMAIL and AOL This is

RE: Opportunity

2000-05-05 Thread Mike Sheldon
#1, Where? #2, Permanent or Contract? #3, You'd turn down a developer with years of experience because they didn't take Allaire's advanced course? Some of us were well into the advanced level before that course existed, and see no point in filling Allaire's coffers just to say we've been there. M

RE: DNS Test Post

2000-05-04 Thread Mike Sheldon
What do you mean by "cancelled" the domain? alakazam.com is certainly still active in the root domain name servers. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Jay Jennings [mail

RE: [RE: AOL and Caching]

2000-05-04 Thread Mike Sheldon
ing at: http://webmaster.info.aol.com/index.cfm?article=12 Thanks, Matt ------ "Mike Sheldon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The following has worked for me in preventing AOL from caching dynamic pages. Note that this must be included

RE: [RE: AOL and Caching]

2000-05-04 Thread Mike Sheldon
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 18:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [RE: AOL and Caching] Mike, Should there be some visible output in the view source of pages including this? All I get is a bunch of carriage returns that I have to cfsetting out. -Ben M. >&q

RE: [RE: AOL and Caching]

2000-05-03 Thread Mike Sheldon
OL's caching at: http://webmaster.info.aol.com/index.cfm?article=12 Thanks, Matt ------ "Mike Sheldon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The following has worked for me in preventing AOL from caching dynamic pages. Note that this must be i

RE: AOL and Caching

2000-05-01 Thread Mike Sheldon
The following has worked for me in preventing AOL from caching dynamic pages. Note that this must be included in ALL pages you do not wish to be cached. (I like to put it in Application.cfm) Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://

RE: Shipping Tag

2000-05-01 Thread Mike Sheldon
http://www.desertraven.com/intershipper.php Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: CF and AOL

2000-04-29 Thread Mike Sheldon
s may change when all their web content goes out of date. -- James Smith - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ask-ted.com - Thiele Euronet Directories Limited = Once we've got the bugs ironed out, we'll be running on flat bugs

RE: CF and AOL

2000-04-28 Thread Mike Sheldon
Nope, those headers go to all pages. They won't cause any harm. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 28, 20

RE: CF and AOL

2000-04-28 Thread Mike Sheldon
It's not so much an issue with CF and AOL as much as it's an issue with the world and AOL. AOL's proxy servers cache pages in an EXTREMELY agreesive manner. Any site with dynamic content, or authentication requirements is at risk of corruption or security breaches unless every measure possible is

RE: encrypt decrypt functions - what kind of encryption?

2000-04-26 Thread Mike Sheldon
>From what I read in the docs, it looks like someone over at Allaire thinks they're qualified to write their own crypto. I would consider it slightly more secure than ROT13 until *proven* otherwise. Unless Allaire will own up to the algorithms used, and the source-code implementations, there's no

RE: does everyone always encrypt?? decrypter?

2000-04-26 Thread Mike Sheldon
I've seen it, compiled it, and tested it. It works. No, I won't say where I got it. Those who are determined will find it on their own. The fact that a decryptor was written was really only a matter of time. In order to perform, the encryption routine had to be fairly lightweight, and the key h

RE: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-23 Thread Mike Sheldon
You are correct, you cannot store complex data directly in a client variable. However, all is not lost, you can serialize the structure using WDDX, store it in the client variable, and deserialize it when you read it back. This, of course, also applies to any situation where you need to store str

RE: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-20 Thread Mike Sheldon
Wow, I feel so enlightened! Imagine all the wasted time I've spent using structures! Every stop to consider that structures can be members of structures, or that you can have arrays of structures? That definitely pulls you out of two dimensions. Yes, Structures are nearly identical to associativ

RE: Silly question from a novice

2000-04-19 Thread Mike Sheldon
Your INSERT problem is probably quote-related. Do not put single quotes around numeric data. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Tiffany - Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: Silly question from a novice

2000-04-19 Thread Mike Sheldon
As a couple others have pointed out, your field datatype is character, not numeric. Now, you have two options here, change the datatype of the column, or do some "fancy footwork" in the query. Changing the datatype is probably the best solution, but in case it's not feasible... Use CONVERT SELEC

RE: CFCOOKIES and CFLOCATION

2000-04-19 Thread Mike Sheldon
This is a very old VERY documented issue. Allaire has documented this, and has stated that it is the intended behavior. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Tariq Ahmed [ma

RE: Does CF have native support for MySQL on Linux?

2000-04-14 Thread Mike Sheldon
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 06:17 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Does CF have native support for MySQL on Linux? There's always the "in between" solution of PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org). Hwrd -----Original Message- From: Mike Sheldon [mailto:[EMA

RE: Studio & RDS Problems

2000-04-13 Thread Mike Sheldon
rsday, April 13, 2000 02:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Studio & RDS Problems :~~~~~~ : From: Mike Sheldon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : : In the NT Resource kit is a utility kill.exe which can : kill any process, including the RDS service when this

RE: Studio & RDS Problems

2000-04-12 Thread Mike Sheldon
In the NT Resource kit is a utility kill.exe which can kill any process, including the RDS service when this happens. CF Exec will then re-start it. Works great. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -

RE: Does CF have native support for MySQL on Linux?

2000-04-11 Thread Mike Sheldon
The two databases are not comparable. MySQL is a fast, simple database for those occasions where "down and dirty" is good enough. (Most cases, really) Oracle is a monolithic product with two tons of functionality and all the complexity that goes with it, and then some. Personally, I wouldn't use O

RE: Does CF have native support for MySQL on Linux?

2000-04-11 Thread Mike Sheldon
No, it uses an ODBC driver from Merant Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 16:27 To: [EMAIL PROT

RE: How well does CF run with mySQL?

2000-04-11 Thread Mike Sheldon
CF runs just fine with MySQL on Linux. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 15:29 To: [EMAIL PROT

AOL is pure evil (was RE: Is 4.5.1 Solid)

2000-04-11 Thread Mike Sheldon
He's not off-base at all. I've had plenty of first-hand experience with AOL breaking every RFC in the book when it suits their purpose. Their caching proxy servers are so completely evil as to defy belief. I've personally been affected by them caching cookies and authentication data to such an ext

RE: Can CF be run on a Cobalt RAQ 3?

2000-04-11 Thread Mike Sheldon
y, April 11, 2000 13:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can CF be run on a Cobalt RAQ 3? - Original Message - From: "Mike Sheldon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 8:34 PM > Given the choice right now, I'd prefer to run the Linux version of C

RE: Can CF be run on a Cobalt RAQ 3?

2000-04-11 Thread Mike Sheldon
As long as it has an x86 processor, CF Linux should run on it. (I know that some of the Cobalt servers use other processor architectures.) Given the choice right now, I'd prefer to run the Linux version of CF. I've tested CF Linux and have been very happy with its behavior. Do note that the Enter

RE: What goes on the faster machine?

2000-04-09 Thread Mike Sheldon
I would go buy some more memory. 128 and 256 are at the very lower limit for production servers, especially with NT. I'd leave the 256 in the web server, and bump the DB server to 512. Otherwise, your assessment on where the load occurs is correct. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Deve

RE: What goes on the faster machine?

2000-04-08 Thread Mike Sheldon
A lot depends on how hard you flex your database. If you're doing complex queries, stored procedures, triggers and such, I'd put SQL on the faster machine. Web serving is fairly I/O intensive, but not extremely processor intensive unless you're doing some serious calculations in your templates. W

RE: CFLOCATION and FORM variables

2000-04-08 Thread Mike Sheldon
Do you have to pass the user on, or just the data? Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Seth Petry-Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 12:30 T

RE: CFLOCATION and FORM variables

2000-04-08 Thread Mike Sheldon
You forgot the best way to pass data with CFLOCATION... Don't use it. Seriously, around 80% of the time I have seen CFLOCATION used, it was unnecessary, or inappropriate. In most cases, CFINCLUDE is much more appropriate. Most of the time, this is caused by a misunderstanding of how CFLOCATION w

RE: stupid cfx tag question

2000-04-07 Thread Mike Sheldon
Some will do it, some won't. Some will investigate it more than others. One ISP I used previously would only do it if they could get the source and compile it themselves. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Reques

RE: stupid cfx tag question

2000-04-07 Thread Mike Sheldon
This only works for CF_ custom tags, not for CFX_ Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Todd Ashworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 15:02 To: [EMAI

RE: stupid cfx tag question

2000-04-07 Thread Mike Sheldon
If they won't install it, you're outta luck. Sorry. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Chris Lott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 12:44 To: [EMAI

RE: NSlookup on email domains

2000-04-07 Thread Mike Sheldon
CFX_NSLookup http://www.desertraven.com/codemodules.php It's a Java CFX, so you will need CF 4.5 or CFX_J to run it. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Michel Gagnon [m

RE: Netscape 6 Eats Microsoft PWS...Story at 11

2000-04-06 Thread Mike Sheldon
For that, just wait a little longer. The Mozilla guys will eventually release a non-AOL version of Mozilla. Truthfully, AOL is really jumping the gun on this one, Mozilla's not quite ready for prime-time yet. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desert

RE: Federal Express Shipping Cost Calculator

2000-04-06 Thread Mike Sheldon
I'm sure I can find out. I know that they're co-located at a decent-sized facility (ELI, I believe) here in Phoenix... Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Jack Baty [mailt

RE: CFX_FEDEX_RATE

2000-04-06 Thread Mike Sheldon
I went to goShip's site to take a look at their developer support. Seems to me they're being overly paranoid. The License agreement for the SDK alone seems a bit over-the-top. Couple that with the fact that the request is email, you can't just download it. Tell 'em to lighten up, maybe I'll writ

Announcement: Update to CF_InterShipper tag

2000-04-06 Thread Mike Sheldon
The CF_InterShipper tag works with the InterShipper service to provide real-time shipping rates for nine different major shipping carriers. As of this week, functionality for retrieving tracking information on shipments has been added. CF_InterShipper can now provide a shipment's current status,

RE: Postal Service Custom Tag like CF_UPSPrice

2000-04-06 Thread Mike Sheldon
http://www.desertraven.com/intershipper.php The cf_intershipper tag provides rates for all of the major carriers. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Larry C. Lyons [mail

RE: Is HomeSite Soon To Be History?

2000-04-05 Thread Mike Sheldon
What a load of hooey! Ignoring the fact that this message was a thinly-disguised advertisement for a competing product... Some of us out here actually KNOW HOW TO CODE! We don't need bloatware handholding to create high-quality sites. It's my opinion, but if you need this type of layout program

RE: Federal Express Shipping Cost Calculator

2000-04-05 Thread Mike Sheldon
and thanks for making it free. I've been trying it > out and I have to say, it works great! This is definitely the way to go... > > Regards, > > Eron > > > > -Original Message- > From: Mike Sheldon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 04,

RE: Federal Express Shipping Cost Calculator

2000-04-04 Thread Mike Sheldon
] Subject: Re: Federal Express Shipping Cost Calculator I thought it had to be: - Original Message - From: "Mike Sheldon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 5:06 PM Subject: RE: Federal Express Shipping Cost Calculator > >

RE: The Len() function...Splitting Hairs?

2000-04-04 Thread Mike Sheldon
No, but: Is faster. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Dave Carabetta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 16:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The L

RE: No Nulls or Decimals for Numbers?

2000-04-04 Thread Mike Sheldon
Fields will only accept nulls if the column definition allows it. Integer fields will only accept integer values, for decimal values, you need to use float, double, currency or numeric(X,X) datatypes. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.c

RE: Security holes revisited -- reward offered

2000-04-04 Thread Mike Sheldon
I have to violently disagree with this. The individual in question is not a reputable security expert, he's a kid with an axe to grind. I would never use any security group who cannot post a bond against any potential damage they may cause in the act of attempting to penetrate the system. Micha

RE: Federal Express Shipping Cost Calculator

2000-04-04 Thread Mike Sheldon
http://www.desertraven.com/intershipper.php I wrote libraries to interface with the InterShipper service, which will give you shipping calculations for most/all of the major shipping companies. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ P

RE: Security holes revisited -- reward offered

2000-04-04 Thread Mike Sheldon
Quite frankly, if this kid has an ounce of brains, or has a friend who does, you're screwed. Due to the fact that he has a friendly agent (boss's daughter) he should be able to get into the network using a legitimate account. This may sound harsh, but disable your boss's account. Chances are he d

RE: Parsing a Comma Delimited file

2000-04-04 Thread Mike Sheldon
There are a couple of custom tags on the Allaire site to do this. (You can do it in CF, but the performance is horrible.) My own tag is also on my site: http://www.desertraven.com/delimtoquery.html Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.co

RE: CFLOCATION based on URL?

2000-04-02 Thread Mike Sheldon
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CFLOCATION based on URL? wow .. that was fast .. thanks What about case sinsitivity though? Will this same code apply if they type the domain in all caps? - Original Message - From: Mike Sheldon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, Apri

RE: naming databases for datasources

2000-04-02 Thread Mike Sheldon
Use the CGI.SERVER_NAME variable to re-direct. ie: Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Ori

RE: naming databases for datasources

2000-04-02 Thread Mike Sheldon
bases for datasources On 4/2/00, Mike Sheldon penned: >Also a good way for someone to try to open it in a text editor and corrupt >it. > >Security through obscurity is not security at all. > >Databases should not be placed in directories that are accessible via the >web. An

RE: naming databases for datasources

2000-04-02 Thread Mike Sheldon
Also a good way for someone to try to open it in a text editor and corrupt it. Security through obscurity is not security at all. Databases should not be placed in directories that are accessible via the web. And, if you're worried about someone with access to the server getting the data, well t

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