Overriding CFERROR on a Timeout

2007-02-20 Thread Rey Bango
As some other developers noted, Verisign went down over the weekend and at a VERY inopportune time. While the error script I had in place notified me of the issue and I was able to address it, I want to expand the site's capabilities to handle any future timeout and non-response issues when

RE: Overriding CFERROR on a Timeout

2007-02-20 Thread Dave Watts
In this specific situation, ColdFusion timed out (not Verisign) so the CF error trapper caught that exception and presented the user with a nice error page. What I want to do is take it a step further so that if my Verisign call times out, I can override the handling of the ColdFusion

Re: Overriding CFERROR on a Timeout

2007-02-20 Thread Rey Bango
Hi Dave, Thats exactly what I had before but the error.cfm template still caught the issue. What I'd like to do is somehow prevent the error.cfm page from kicking in so that the rest of the script can continue and the user is oblivious to the timeout. Perhaps I need to trap for a specific

RE: Overriding CFERROR on a Timeout

2007-02-20 Thread Dave Watts
Thats exactly what I had before but the error.cfm template still caught the issue. What I'd like to do is somehow prevent the error.cfm page from kicking in so that the rest of the script can continue and the user is oblivious to the timeout. Perhaps I need to trap for a specific

Re: Overriding CFERROR on a Timeout

2007-02-20 Thread Rey Bango
Thanks again for the reply Dave. Replies below: You should certainly be as specific as possible within your exception handler. Let me be a bit more specific. In terms of a CF timeout, do you (or anyone reading) happen to know what exception code CF spits out? The types listed for CFCatch

RE: Overriding CFERROR on a Timeout

2007-02-20 Thread Dave Watts
Let me be a bit more specific. In terms of a CF timeout, do you (or anyone reading) happen to know what exception code CF spits out? Is the page itself timing out, or something specific (like a CFHTTP call) timing out? I was assuming the latter - I honestly don't know how you'd deal with a

Re: Overriding CFERROR on a Timeout

2007-02-20 Thread Rey Bango
The error is: Error,jrpp-65,02/19/07,10:36:59,HBC,The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: cfmail brThe error occurred on line 1346., /purchase.cfm But the CFMail tag specified there isn't the culprit because I received the email alerts. Its the cfmail code thats included in

RE: Overriding CFERROR on a Timeout

2007-02-20 Thread Dave Watts
The error is: Error,jrpp-65,02/19/07,10:36:59,HBC,The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: cfmail brThe error occurred on line 1346., /purchase.cfm But the CFMail tag specified there isn't the culprit because I received the email alerts. Its the cfmail code thats

Re: Overriding CFERROR on a Timeout

2007-02-20 Thread Rey Bango
Thanks Dave. I'll check this out tomorrow. Rey Dave Watts wrote: The error is: Error,jrpp-65,02/19/07,10:36:59,HBC,The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: cfmail brThe error occurred on line 1346., /purchase.cfm But the CFMail tag specified there isn't the culprit