Haha.. Someone wanted suggestions on what ppl wanted in a host -
probably didn't know it'd become a spam free-for-all
---
Billy Cravens
Web Development, EDS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message-
From: Warren Jansons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 12:58 PM
This might be a good feature to add. CFWDDX doesn't convert into a
user-defined XML packet; it converts it into a WDDX packet (which is an
implementation of XML). I can think of many instances where you would
want to be able to define the XML structure. (there's nothing to keep
you from using
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:06:32 +0800, Kay Smoljak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have a dynamically generated form, with numbered fields. I have the
following code on my action page to set all checkboxes to 0 by default
(the hardcoded 50 is for testing purposes):
cfloop from=1 to=50 index=p
I just downloaded a 300mb sample database in RDF file.
I recall once opening it in IE and got a huge XML formatted data.
Is there a way to export this thing into SQL somehow?
Michael.
~~
Get the mailserver that powers this list at
Just to follow up on Billy Craven's point - the other thing I would want
from a shared provider is real information on what the box is doing - not
just an assurance that there are only 30/300 sites on the machine.
Ben
--
Ben Whalley,
Hi Rob,
I ran some tests on CFX_XMLPARSER vs MSXML, and found that while the MSXML
parser was only around twice as slow on average when run once, if you ran
it 10/100/1000 times the MSXML parser started to get a factor of 10 to 100
times slower (sometimes taking nearly 2 seconds to parse a
Hi Bruce,
CFSILENT is a great tag IMO. It allows us to suppress all whitespace
generated within our custom tags, even when a custom tag is called from
within a CFOUTPUT block - if only Spectra (1.0) custom tags used CFSILENT...
Anyway, CFSILENT is like any other CF tag which has an opening and
Hi all
I thought I had seen reference to this awhile back but have yet to find it.
So I will ask the question.
I have a TXT file (6000+ records)on a remote server (ISP). On a nightly
basis this file is getting replaced with a new one as all the data changes,
and I need to take the data and
just a guess - you only get a referrer if you clicked on a link to this
page.
If you load the page directly, ie type it into the address bar, you get
no cgi.http_referrer.
Spent an hour puzzling over this last week!
--
From: Steven Douglas
Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If the machine that has the TXT file has CF on it, then you can do the
following: (Provided WDDX can handle a file that big - someone else might
have a handle on this)
1) Make a CFHTTP call to the base machine from the remote machine that
calls a script on your base machine. Have that script
OK, Sorry about that.
But I see your problem now
cfparam name=str default=0
needs to be changed to
cfparam name=#str# default=0
or
cfparam name=str default=0
Your original was checking for the existence of a
variable named str rather than named the contents of
str.
--- Kay Smoljak [EMAIL
We spent two days doing just that ourselves and were to rebuild (we own our
server) this morning, but our ISP jumped in and took care of it literally
out of the goodness of their hearts. They replaced all our exe files and we
did an extended replace to get rid of the JavaScripts. The last bit
One thing I'm eternally grateful for is the advice to go with
O'Reilly's Web Site and disable IIS. I've certainly gotten my 900
bucks worth in sleepful nights and time not spent cleaning up all
this crap and would heartily recommend anyone that's not already
dependent upon those programs to
Some of us are hosting applications that require IIS. Properly configured
servers don't have these problems, do they, Dave? Any word on the class?
JoAnn A. Schlosser
-Original Message-
From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 8:42 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject:
I had the patch and therefore was not infected by the worm this time. However it had
another attack where it made DOS type gets against what Code Red would have left. It
crippled our box for about 2 hours, but we found a fix that was not published
anywhere, but seemed so obvious when we
Unfortunately, this virus can hit you just as easily. It also comes by
email and by opening up a page in an infected site, and also by accessing
shared drives in a network. In all, I think it comes in 16 different ways.
It's been called a cocktail of viruses.
tom
Bud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Our people who are supposed to be maintaining the server swear all patches
were in place and we still got hit. Can you please tell me exactly which
patch you are referring to? I don't manage the box, but I sure as hell
suffer if no one else does, either. I would like to follow up on this on
You'll have to remember what control items you have in
your program. One common way of dealing with it is to
do cfparam's for all your checkboxes in your action
page.
Thanks, but if you look at the code I posted with my question,
you'll see that's exactly what I am doing. Any ideas
The roll up patch that fixed Code Red was supposed to also apply to this one. This is
the only way we could have not gotten infected because it was trying to use the same
attack code red did on IIS.. Now if you got infected via an email or throguh viewing
a webpage that had it, that was a
How much experience do people have with CF and Apache? Anything to be aware
of if switching from IIS. We are just about to buy a new box and with all
these nightmares people are having with nimba etc thought it might be a good
idea.
Ben
Hi all,
How can extract only the files with the following file extensions .96
from the string below and display the results as
Output:
1.96,2.96
test1.txt,test2.txt,test3.txt,file1.96,test4.in,test5.dat,file2.96,file3.96,test6.dat,test5.doc,test5.jb
Works great so long as you do not need SSL. Been running it for almost 3
years without a problem.
-Original Message-
From: Ben Whalley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 9:53 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: cf and apache
How much experience do people have with CF and
Is the CF 5 Studio RC still available for download? I meant to grab it
during beta, and didn't get around to it. I've downloaded the upgrade files
for 4.5 to access CF5 features, but ever since then my Studio 4.5 has been
really flaky. If I double click on a folder by accident, the contents
If you got this list from a CFDIRECTORY tag, you may want to use the
FILTER option instead to automatically only return files named .96.
As for finding elements in a list that match .96 (and match at the
END), there are a variety of ways. Here is one:
CFLOOP INDEX=Item LIST=#List#
CFIF
I love it, and use it on my development machine.
Although if memory serves me... there were some problems with scalability
on Windows units. I can't speak from experience, nor can I point to
numbers though.
At 02:53 PM 09/21/2001 +0100, you wrote:
How much experience do people have with
Is the CF 5 Studio RC still available for download?
Have you checked at the beta site? That's really the best place to address
these issues.
Ken
~~
Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at
Apache does not officialy support Apache Web Server on windows.
Apache was designed for Unix from the ground up, it is just
incredibly portable so it made its way to windows.
Consider it (really good) beta quality software.
Jeremy Allen
elliptIQ Inc.
--
http://www.neighborware.com
America's
How can I display the filenames with the .96 extensions from the CFLOOP.
Right now it just displays...
good one
good one
I need
file1.96
file2.96
At 10:06 AM 9/21/01 -0400, you wrote:
If you got this list from a CFDIRECTORY tag, you may want to use the
FILTER option instead to automatically
Nevermind.
I got it to display the filenames.
Thanks for your help Raymond.
At 10:06 AM 9/21/01 -0400, you wrote:
If you got this list from a CFDIRECTORY tag, you may want to use the
FILTER option instead to automatically only return files named .96.
As for finding elements in a list that
Oh, notice the INDEX=item code? This says, for every item in the loop,
create a variable named item. That's why I check the value of item.
So, to display it, just add: CFOUTPUT#Item#/CFOUTPUT
===
Raymond Camden, Principal
smile Cheaper, yes, better... I have never used better and Microsoft
in the same sentence when it comes to Internet connectivity.
All joking aside, you actually want your upstream provider to block it at
their router since presumably there is substantially more bandwidth at their
end of your
Try IBM HTTP server. This IS Apache with 128 bit SSL support. Free since
it's Apache, but
costs for support (which is optional, we have never needed support and as a
result have never paid anything.
We have been running a load balanced farm of 5 servers for 2 years without a
hitch. You'll find
On 9/20/01, Won Lee penned:
Hopefully someone can answer this question.
I have a cfm page with a FORM and CFFORM that have the same action
attribute.
When ever I enter a value in the CFINPUT text box that has already been
entered into the DB the page does not pass the form.submit value over.
On 9/21/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned:
Some of us are hosting applications that require IIS.
That's why I added the blurb that I'd recommend O'Reilly to anyone
that's not already
dependent upon IIS or FP. I for one would rather turn down some
customers than put them and myself through the
I agree. If you're gonna change to Apache, consider switching Operating
Systems to something like Redhat. I've heard good results from people
using Apache and CF on *Nix.
---
Billy Cravens
Web Development, EDS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message-
From: Jeremy Allen [mailto:[EMAIL
Nimda can infect through shares. One of our internal development website
(no outside access allowed per firewall rules) was hit through a D: drive
share. It had us puzzled as well. It was patched and had no firewall
access.
I'm still piecing it together, but this is what I believe happened.
No, CGI variables always exist.
IsDefined(cgi.somevariablethatwillnevereverexist) will return true
Do cfif Len(cgi.whatever) instead
---
Billy Cravens
Web Development, EDS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message-
From: BT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 7:48
On 9/21/01, tom muck penned:
Unfortunately, this virus can hit you just as easily. It also comes by
email
I don't open e-mail on my servers.
and by opening up a page in an infected site,
I don't surf the web from my servers.
and also by accessing
shared drives in a network.
Only if the
If you clicked on the html page in Explorer (Windows NOT IE) it brings up
that little preview in the left side of the window, this running the page
and infecting the server. Sucks doesn't it? Just have to run NAV, and run
the latest IE with all the patches.
Neil
- Original Message -
Out of curiosity what elements do your applications require of IIS that
O'Reilly may or may not have? It just that I'm looking at O'Reilly as an
alternative.
Cheers
Kola Oyedeji
Web developer
Macromedia Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer
http://www.Alexandermark.com
(+44)020-8429-7300
I heard O'Reilly was being discontinued. We have used it for years but it
has hit a point where there was no development for a year or longer. No new
stuff added or fixes.
Regards,
Gary P. McNeel, Jr.
Executive Director - DAC-Net
Rice University
713-348-6266
dacnet.rice.edu
-Original
I heard O'Reilly was being discontinued.
http://www.deerfield.com/products/website/
~~
Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq
Archives:
Out of curiosity what elements do your applications require
of IIS that
~~
Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more
resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
FAQ:
Try your suggestion and still having the same results.
The error message I'm getting is:
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another
process. (error 32)
Jack Tumlin
Vice President Business Development
Millennium Software, Inc.
The Software Solutions Company
[EMAIL
We are running our intranet on CF 3.1, with O'Reilly Website v2.3, Access
as a backend database. (We are a small 10+ person company). We would like
to add a search capability to the intranet...anyone recommend a good
(Hopefully free/linkware) search enging tag or solution?
John
why not verity?
-Original Message-
From: John Paitel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 21 September 2001 17:56
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Intranet search engines?
We are running our intranet on CF 3.1, with O'Reilly Website v2.3, Access
as a backend database. (We are a small 10+ person
O'Reilley WebSite comes with an inbuilt indexing-search capability. When I
used to use WebSite I used this often and it was easy to set up and
efficient to use.
Kind Regards - Mike Brunt
Sempra Energy
-Original Message-
From: John Paitel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday,
Uhm...link? (Sorry, new to the whole search engine thing).
At 05:56 PM 9/21/01 +0100, you wrote:
why not verity?
-Original Message-
From: John Paitel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 21 September 2001 17:56
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Intranet search engines?
We are running our intranet on
why not verity?
Uhm...link? (Sorry, new to the whole search engine thing).
CF comes with the Verity search and indexing engine, which allows you to
index static files and database content, and search it from CF. You might
want to read the CF documentation on Verity to see how to use it -
hi john
have a read of this
http://www.allaire.com/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=18429Method=FullCache=Off
coldfusion comes with its own search facility built in verity, it sounds
like website has one also, so you're spoilt for choice. I'd stick with
verity if I was you, since you'll get help on this
Hi All,
I have a problem with date comparison.
I have the following code that does not work, can
someone tell me what is it that I am doing wrong? What
is happening is that the date is comparing the date to
seconds level. If I have 09/21/2001 as the Request
Date, it is still giving the message
Coming into this thread late
But I suggest that the two segments of problematic
code in the parent window and the child window both be
enclosed within a named cflock like name=arexcelr
(if you haven't already done this)
--- Jack Tumlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try your suggestion and still
What in the world is happening. Installed CF5 on 2000 and tested it for a
week...no problems. Put the machine into production, now with any mail send
I get
TagCFMail::sendMessage
and with any CFINDEX call I get
Error trying to open batchFilename
Please help. This is hurting very bad and I
How can i check the time on a remote box?
~~
Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at
http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq
Archives:
This was just circulated internally to us, it may only apply to our network
but just in case: -
E-mail users are propagating a hoax message that warns users of permanent
hard disk destruction and the removal of all Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL
files) if they open an e-mail called FAMILY PICTURES.
sorry, should've dug more. just telneted to smtp and took the time from
there.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/21/2001 12:53:41 PM
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject: OT-Getting time
How can i check the time on a remote box?
Some of the CGI variables that you can use in IIS, are not available in
Apache, CGI.PATH_INFO is one.
~~
Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq
Archives:
Thanks for the response, Colin,
Your email was helpful. But it appears that given the restrictions you
state, it's not possible in some situations to get rid of all white space.
The example I gave was a simplistic one. I've decided to grad a chunk of
the real file I was wrestling with and pasted
If I have a dynamically created html file (generated via a cf template), how
would I go about converting that to a useable Word document?
I have a process that requires me to fax out a document on a regular basis.
I need to automate the process of creating the Word doc from a cf generated
html
The most recent win32 release (1.3.20) is considered initial release quality
and it works great. Never a problem.
Justin
-Original Message-
From: Jeremy Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 10:29 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: cf and apache
Apache does not
Look at RTF as a possibility. Easy to generate; no COM required. The
basics: create an RTF file with your formatting, then edit the RTF codes
(RTF files are basically just marked-up ASCII) based on your CF code.
Of course, you'll need to rewrite it (no simple way to go from
HTML-RTF), but it's
I have never had a problem with it either.
To support my argument, from the FAQ about
windows
Warning: Apache on NT has not yet been optimized for performance. Apache
still performs best, and is most reliable on Unix platforms. Over time NT
performance has improved, and great progress is
I made the same suggestion earlier, just for Apache rather than Website.
I've never used IIS, ever. Used to use Netscape's server before Apache was
solid on win32...
One thing I'm eternally grateful for is the advice to go with
O'Reilly's Web Site and disable IIS. I've certainly gotten my 900
I am attempting to install the trial of cfx_jmail on a sun solaris box with cf 4.5.1
and after following the directions
that came with the tag I have found that all that happens when I call the tag is cf
crashes and restarts via the
cfexecutive service. I have tried pointing the JVM path to
Hi Folks,
I've seen this brought up before, but yet to see any solutions When
using cfgraph, changing the graphwidth and graphheight attributes doesn't
actually change the graph scale. In other words, if I have a graph that's
crowded, I can't increase the width of the graph (even if I
We run CF / Apache on Solaris and are very happy with performance
stability.
Rachel
-
Rachel Luxemburg
Sr. Product Manager, UltraDNS
http://www.ultradns.com
Voice: (650) 227-2684
~~
Get the mailserver that powers
If the server is crashing when you click load jvm at startup, then you
definitely have a problem with your JVM. Goto http://java.sun.com and
download the latest JRE and install it. Have it point to the hotspot server
libjvm.so
Pete Freitag
Does anyone have some numbers on how well CF works on Apache, I would love
to not have to install an update for MS every 2 days, but I have never seen
any numbers comparing the 2. I don't want to sacrifice speed though, since I
haven't had any problems with MS since I took off all the mappings
I have a question for the group:
Is there some permission that needs to be set to have cfscripts run under
IIS.
The reason I ask is this. We have a development server that is password
protected using standard NT security. This has worked fine until this
morning. Browsing to an HTML file works
I believe that this is a limitation in CFGRAPH. I have also ran into this
issue with PopCharts, a standalone application that also creates web graphs
and charts. I played with this for quite some time and was not able to find
a solution.
- Original Message -
From: Deanna Schneider [EMAIL
I would check permissions on the files them selves. Sounds like some permissions may
not have propogated to the files themselves.
Robert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a question for the group:
Is there some permission that needs to be set to have cfscripts run under
IIS.
The reason I ask
Did the system get updated last night to repel the Nimda thing?
There could be several items -
- CFM pages need execute permission, comparible to CGI. The execute like
ASP won't work. (And if the IISLockdown tool was run last night, this
would have broken that.)
- Someone may have
Sounds like the web directories and users have been removed from share
and/or write permissions, probably in response to Nimda, and maybe
automatically by one of the Nimda tools.
We did it on purpose to stop access to our sites until we could secure all
data, and clean all pages.
Mo
At
My company is looking for a web developer with 2+ years experience in design
and development using ColdFusion, Fusebox, custom tags and Oracle SQL in the
ColdFusion environment (a full job description is posted at
http://www.ultradns.com/jobs/development.html#MH082801).
UltraDNS is a small but
Hi everyone,
In Verity, is it possible to search just on the title of a document? Or
does Verity treat all text w/in a document the same?
Rather than displaying x number of records per page and then using the
Next/Previous scenario, I would like to have it organized alphabetically by
the
EZEDIT has a call to a cgi variable that is causing me a problem as
Website Pro does not support it. Since I can't see what results it
passes can someone help me construct the same results using
all ColdFusion path variables?
Terry
WebRoot = Left(CGI.Path_Translated,Len(CGI.Path_Translated) -
You can pass CF_TITLE to the criteria string. Now, I'm not sure if
Verity will auto add the text between TITLE tags when it indexes your
site, but you can try it.
FYI, you can find out more here:
http://localhost/CFDOCS/Developing_ColdFusion_Applications/indexSearch7.
html#1096786
Of course,
I didn't save it in a diffrent location. is there still a
Repeat after me.
Backups Good. Take backups.
Can we get this missing line thing fixed ?
~~
Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
FAQ:
On 9/21/01, Gary P. McNeel, Jr. penned:
I heard O'Reilly was being discontinued. We have used it for years but it
has hit a point where there was no development for a year or longer.
They have quit development, but it's still available and supported.
Version 3 came out at the beginning of this
On 9/21/01, Ken Wilson penned:
I heard O'Reilly was being discontinued.
http://www.deerfield.com/products/website/
Oh, cool! Deerfield seems to be a decent company. I use Serv-U, which
they developed sold to CatSoft.
--
Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations
Hi,
I have been able to successfully retrieve a recordset from an Oracle Stored
Procedure using Oracle's REF CURSOR type and the
CFSQLTYPE=CF_SQL_REFCURSOR.
I want to know has anyone been successful in passing a recordset into a
stored procedure with a CFPROCPARAM tag something like this:
but if you're going to ping a IP address ping it when the traffic is at
it's peak to get a true comparison. i know we offer 24 / 7 stats and the
odbc connection.
Mark Campbell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
~~
Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get
- CFM pages need execute permission, comparible to CGI. The
execute like ASP won't work.
I don't think this is correct. You can (and should) specify .cfm files to
run as scripts, rather than as executables.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
Is there some permission that needs to be set to have
cfscripts run under IIS.
The reason I ask is this. We have a development server that
is password protected using standard NT security. This has
worked fine until this morning. Browsing to an HTML file
works fine, but any CFM page
Hi All,
I have been asked by a client to design a solution to the following problem
and am requesting some advice on the best way to go about the solution with
CF.
My client is a large organisation with many products. In order for people to
view information about these products they need to be
I run apache on several linux boxes, all running cf - and it rocks. Lovely
and fast, doesn't fall down, and takes only a second to restart http and cf
services together if you ever need it (which is rare).
Toby
At 12:00 AM 9/22/2001, you wrote:
Works great so long as you do not need SSL.
For several years we have been using CSE HTML Validator to
check our HTML code and tools like Coast Webmaster to check
the integrity of our links. We are moving from our archaic,
static page method to a more dynamic method that makes use
of cfinclude and JavaScript, among other things.
Can I catch the page timeout error at all ?
I haven't tried it myself but the list of Advanced Exception
Types includes
COM.Allaire.ColdFusion.Request.Timeout
I think that only applies when using CFHTTP; if the CFHTTP request times
out, and you've use THROWONTIMEOUT=YES in your CFHTTP
Can I catch the page timeout error at all?
I don't think you can.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
~~
Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at
Rather that actually passing them from machine to machine, I would set up a
login on each of the machines that triggers a WDDX call to the main server
that hosts your security database for authentication. This allows you to
set the cookie for the domain that they are at while querying the
Dave...It's past midnight on FridayGo home!!!
Brian Yager
President - North AL Cold Fusion Users Group
Sr. Systems Analyst
NCCIM/CIC
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(256) 842-8342
-Original Message-
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 12:02 AM
To:
I need to find someone who knows perl and CF who would be willing to
tell me how to write one line of Perl code to Cold Fusion.. It uses the
sed statement..
Can anyone help.. please?
Thanks,
Tony Hicks
--
Search the Holy Bible: http://www.bibleclicks.com
Ok this has me somewhat baffled. I am using CFHTTP to gather content from
one site to display on another (of course). I have the script running on my
box at work and at home and have no issues at all with the script. I went
live with the file and I now receive Authorization error messages. I am
What if..
The user clicks login
They're taken to the login page on company.com
They log in
A cookie is set on company.com
The variable is carried to producta.com because they see a form with a
button that says Continue On
When they hit producta.com, the cookie is set
It might help if you could show us some of the code.. CFHTTP is a little
buggy.
--
Search the Holy Bible: http://www.bibleclicks.com
- Original Message -
From: Mike cheese Lansing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 2:27 AM
Subject:
Hi David,
I like the sound of your idea because the user will have a seamless
experience. Where could I find some code example to do this or is their
anybody out their who could point me in the right direction with some
snippets.
cheers
Trent Shepherd
-Original Message-
From: David
96 matches
Mail list logo
