I believe you are correct that the answer is no and that process seems perfectly logical and correct.
Here is how I see the process running... By the way this is not actual knowledge of the process, but how I've always assumed that the process occurred. 1) Request is received by web server and is passed to cf. 2) CF sees which page it needs and checks to see if there is a compiled version of the template in memory or a class file on disk. 3) If there is, happily run the compiled byte code in the appropriate order. <cfabort>! 4) If not, compile the template. If that template references any other templates check each of those for compiled versions, if not then compile those as well. 5) Process the now compiled files in the appropriate order. The compiler and the executor are two different processes in CF. My guess is that the compiler takes lots of extra time and resources, so it does all its work before getting into the execution process. However like I said before I don't know any of this for sure, it's just how I understand the process. All that being said, unless there is a real need to futz with extensions, all extensions should match their filetype. PDF should be .pdf, Excel should be .xls, etc. In general it makes life a lot easier. Steve <snip> My question was "is it possible to have CF compile a template requested in the url only if it is executed", so far the answer is no. </snip> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:345588 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
