We are running into an unreproducible error when trying to connect to an Access database using CF 5.
Our system has a series of scheduled events and in some cases our clients are reporting a 401 Unauthorised error when the scheduled event tries to connect to an Access database.
The database
This error isn't related to the database connection.A 401 means that
your web server has the requested URL protected and the client (in
this case, the ColdFusion scheduler) is being rejected by the web
server.The ColdFusion scheduler connects to the server as an HTTP
client (so, it looks like
Can anyone see any reason why you wouldn't want to copy session scope variables to a request scope variable if all you want to do is to test the values in them but not set them?
It strikes me that this would be more efficient than locking the session scope each time you wanted to test the
but mabye
slowing down the mouse double-click speed my help.
I have the same problem if Studio and it isn't present in any other app on
my machine. As well, I have tested my double click speed in the Mouse
Control Panel and it works no matter how fast I click the mouse.
It would appear that
I see CFDJ has published this year's Reader's Choice awards, and
the winners look to be a whole bunch of CF-Talk subscribers.
The URL to the list of winners is
http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/article.cfm?id=418
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If there is an Application.cfm (it Should be spelled this way)
The reason being that it if the files reside on a Unix server it will not
load the Application.cfm file if it has a lowercase 'a' as the first letter.
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We have a case where it appears our template is running twice - but only
intermittently.
I had a similar problem and it was, thankfully, tracked down to an error in
a dynamic img tag. Disable images in your browser and see if it still loads
the tempalte twice. If it doesn't then try looking in
Is there a reason you cannot use CFGRAPH FILEFORMAT=Flash?
Maybe they don't have CF 5?
Maybe the chart is more complicated than the templates available via
CFGraph?
Maybe they need more customization options?
All sorts of reasons why you can't use CFGraph.
If anyone would be interested in some sample ActionScript for Graphing
without using Generator or CFGRAPH, let me know and I might drum
something up.
If people can wait a week or two there is going to be an article on the
Macromedia Dev site that illustrates building Flash graphs using a
We're having trouble with file uploads when a MAC client is being used.
Running NT4.0 SP6, CF5.0, and either Website or Apache
The templates work fine with PC clients in any browser but with IE5.1 on
the MAC, the upload box appears, you can select a file and hit upload and
the browser
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A true .NET service will simply be a
SOAP method/property, which you can actually use now (and other
proprietary
services like Passport have COM interfaces).
My understanding from Devcon was that the .NET integration was, at this
point, limited to accessing .NET web services.
Of course, you'll notice that they in
the initial public Neo info that they are only supporting a limited set of
J2EE engines (interestingly enough, all of them are commercial products -
even though there are a number of open-source J2EE products that are fully
compliant).
Not interesting
Then why is there an Apache module?
User demand? Besides, that was produced by Allaire not Macromedia.
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So was the RedHat support issue,
Not to the best of my knowledge. Red Hat was/is supported for CF primarily
becasue Red Hat sells and provides support for their OS products.
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Is CF Dead, no, but it is dying.
Please explain this statement
Please don't.
We waste enough bandwidth with these inane CF is dead Macromedia is dead
posts.
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Hope this is not too OT. Are there any dev teams uisng Visual Source
Safe for their code (or similar product)? Did you find it useful?
Our team is currently using it for one project and while it is useful we're
looking at moving to CVS instead.
The main problem is a lack of cross platform
They are asking us what the 'industry standard'
wording for 'user friendly' is. I say we need more design specifications.
Sound familiar?
Too familiar.
I'd lose the phrase entirely. There is no (AFAIK) industry specification for
what user friendly is. The client needs to define what
Great, thanks. I'm seeing that content in a Netscape 6.x branch, but if
it's across a good segment of browsers then that'd be a good issue to flag
for them.
It might just be a Mozilla 0.96 bug. The new version (o.97) doesn't have the
same behaviour.
At 9:11 AM 1/23/2, Zac Belado wrote:
I can't get any data back from the knowledgebase search using Mozilla
Hi Zac -- Which page, which Mozilla, any particular search term, and does
no date also mean no HTML, or just a literal no hits type of message,
or what should someone expect to see
if this article (TechNote 21912)was ever completed or does
anyone have any pointers to any material that could help diagnose this
misconfiguration?
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Those are my articles, and I know, they are not done. (I've been caught up
in development). None of them are supposed to address the Unix 111 errors,
Someone had better change the FAQ at
ftp://ftp.allaire.com/kbftp/coldfusion/50/21908/jnoller-LinuxFAQ_21908.htm
then as it seems to state that
I have always wanted to learn Linux and FreeBSD, but could never
find a good enough machine to do it, and then on top of that when it was
installed I just couldn't run from machine to machine. So I was reading
cnn.com and they were talking about Virtual PC for the Mac. So I figured
No I was disturbed by the amount of people saying they lost or
couldn't find
coldfusion jobs because companies weren't using them.
I haven't piled through the 100+ messages in this thread yet so please
excuse me if this has been said before...
but is this nothing but a symptom of the recent
Is there a client for VSS for mac's?
Yup. I beleive that its only version 5 so you need to create a version 5 DB
to accommodate that user
http://www.metrowerks.com/desktop/MWVSS/
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There is something similar to JavaDoc already in the works:
http://cfdoc.sourceforge.net/
Currently the link to the Zip file is broken so there doesn't appear to be
any way to get the code.
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Not sure about this, but does anyone know about CF
support for this feature of Perl's regex support?
Isn't there a CFX tag in the Tag Gallery that does this?
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Can anyone give me any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'm not sure
it matters, but we do run ColdFusion on Solaris.
What version of Java are you running on your server?
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Can anyone give me any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'm not sure
it matters, but we do run ColdFusion on Solaris.
What version of Java are you running on your server?
And I also asked
Does the error give a method name or class name in which the error occurs?
But the last line got cut off
We are running CF 4.5.1 SP 2.
Which version of the Java runtime are you running? You might want to
consider upgrading if you're not running 1.3.1
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that, at least at
this point, upgrading to 1.3.x is not recommended. I can't
remember exactly
where I read that. Anyone else know anything about this?
I've been running 1.3.1 with no problems. But that is under win2K. I've no
I've searched the archives and have seen other people asking but no
definitive answer. Should I just bag CFGRAPH or is it a little more robust
than I'm thinking at this point? Thanks.
If you need something more specialised, or robust, than the cggraph tag
provides then I'd look at writing a
PCodeRuntimeContextImp::executeSQLTagCFQuery::endTag
You aren't using an unlocked session or application variable in the query
are you?
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Anyone know what might cause a ColdFusion page to process twice?
I'm using cflocation to redirect to a page that then does a CFHTTP post
request.
This page, post request and a subsequent query both get processed twice.
I've eliminated all the obvious solutions (no header refresh commands, no
Any javascript involved?
No. None in any of the pages.
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Are you using CFMODULE or any custom tags?
It's possible that it's loading twice because of thistag.executionmode
I'm using cfmodule in several locations but at no point am I using, setting,
or testing executionmode in the site at all
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when you use cfmodule are you using a closing tag?
/cfmodule
No closing CFModule tags
Or are you using closing tags in any of your CT's?
If so that will make the page execute twice.
None of the pages use any custom tags either.
Any thing that would cause a cfinclude to be executed twice?
Here's a link to some software that prevents Outlook Express from
executing any vbs or other executables. I've never used it but
figured that I'd make it's existance know (btw - the site has
other interesting looking freeware as well).
If P-mail were as popular as Outlook, it would be targetted and exploited.
You don't hear about Pegasus Mail viruses because it doesn't have the
userbase that Outlook does.
Complete and utter rubbish.
Outlook, Windows Scripting and the entire Office macro system is riddled
with security
Sure, but presumably vulnerabilities exist in more or less all
software?
Certainly. But I think there is a difference between finding out that your
ftp server software has a buffer overflow exploit in it and continuing to
ship and expand the same macro/scripting system that you *know* is
The first line should read:
I have the NumberFormat() func formatting a number with zeros. The
result is one integer higher than the original integer.
I'm assuming its just a bug in Cf 4.5
Do you just need to pad put the string to a set number of characters? If so
then you might want to
Dude. You're slagging Microsoft and you're site's hosted on an NT 4 Box?
Ask me if I picked the server software?
Everything is riddled with security holes.
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01 cfloop query=categories
02 cfset queryName=#column_from_query#
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04 cfoutput
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06 cfif #queryName#.recordcount gte 1 DO THIS /cfif
07 cfif #queryName#.recordcount lt 1 DO THAT /cfif
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09 /cfoutput
10 /cfloop
Try using evaluate
cfset intRecordCount = evaluate
Has anyone else experienced this? Is this an anomaly or is this a known
issue with CF and MAC or is it an IE bug?
The colon character is the path delimiter on the Mac.
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Trying to evaluate which way I should lean in the future. How much
faster is CF, in general terms, than PHP - both from a standpoint of
learning and developing dynamic sites?
CF is easier to learn and I think its faster to develop in it as well. The
primary benefits of CF, in terms of
my answer was 160, but according to the book, the answer is 120. I thought
(and it says in Forta's book) that a copy of a structure is just a pointer
to the original so that if you change the copy, you change the
original. Am
i missing something here? Can someone explain? Thanks for any
Does anyone have any insight into the future of VTML now that Macromedia has
announced that they are developing a new IDE?
Does anyone know if the new IDE will support existing VTML files and
Wizards?
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I'm with you William.
Aside from the part of CF5S not ever crashing.
I have crashed CF5S ten or so times since I bought it.
I think this problem has less to do with CF Studio and more with your OS
install.
I had nothing but trouble with CF Studio under Windows 98. I moved over to
Win2K for
1. Pros? Cons? Opinions? I've generally only seen good
feedback, but I thought I'd see...
Its like any developmental methodology. It's value is in direct relation to
the amount of work you need to do to implement it.
If you already have a full or partial methodology then it might not be
Look. Ben Forta is the guru of gurus in CF, and he didn't exactly give it
an endoresement when he came to Vancouver last week. That's enough for me
to sweep that idea under the rug. He didn't exactly slag it either, but
anyways, he can probably fill you in more than I can. As him for more
If you are
looking to try and instill good disciplines and readability in your code
Fusebox is also good for that.
This presumes that the developers know fusebox.
You could also get this same benefit from documenting your methods and
making sure your developers follow a single standard.
You know, its all nice to have the original developer explain his
methodology but sometimes that just isn't possible.
That is why you *document* things.
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The problem with making your own methodology up is that only the
people you
have taight it to will know it,
But that's another issue altogether is it not?
the benefit of fusebox and any
other popular
methodology is that there are support forums, sample
applications, and white
papers that
I know if I need more developers on a project I don't have to waste time
teaching them from the ground up, they can learn on their own.
I really fail to see how this is any different than learning any
developmental methodology.
If someone has to read my methodology docs or someone has to read
If someone led you to believe there was a real difference...they were
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I think the difference is that there is a good chance that an outside
contractor might already know Fusebox. That won't be the case for
something custom.
Maybe this is a regional thing but none of the developers I know use Fusebox
at all. Just how many people actively use fusebox?
I hear
I'd think that number is kinda small...
Compared to what?
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(Okay ppl - let's pretend like we're mature and not turn this into another
pathetic why Microsoft is bad thread - I'm just pointing out a potential
technology)
So its immature to point out that the system is insecure (re: the recent
Hotmail exploit of Passport that grabbed people's CC
I've used UD and Studio together since UD 1 came out and before
that DW and
Studio. Personally designing complex table structures from scratch by hand
takes way too much time. That's what CF is all about, RAD...
I've done some site designs in DW that would never have been possible by
hand
According to the CF Debug output the value for REQUEST_URI is a
full path
(/dev/ca/viewContent.cfm/group/3). But when I assign request_uri to a
variable it appears in the CF page as just /group/3.
Do you have any code to demonstrate this behaviour?
Yup, but its not doing it now.
The
Yes, we are using cfobject to instantiate the objects but it
appears that
Coldfusion can only handle single threaded communication with the JVM.
Are the two Java components communicating amongst themselves? If so might
the issue be a threading problem between the two components?
is there a workaround?
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We have a Coldfusion 4.5 application that we have integrated java
objects by
creating them using the cfObject tag.
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objects by
creating them using the cfObject tag.
Are you trying to connect to an EJB?
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Douglas said:
One thing to note, is that with structClear() you will be
killing all session vars and not just the user that logged out.
I just checked, and in my app at least, this is not true.
I believe that it will not clear out the CFIF and CFToken in versions 4.x
but will do so in
Douglas said:
One thing to note, is that with structClear() you will be
killing all session vars and not just the user that logged out.
I just checked, and in my app at least, this is not true.
I believe that it will not clear out the CFIF and CFToken in versions 4.x
but will do so
It's not the background color that has the problem, the image is a button
with a background of one color, a shaped area and text over the top - we
can't use just websafe colors as they are just too limiting - the
anti-aliasing alone would throw it out of the window!
I'm not suggesting that
Nobody got any ideas about this?
Damn
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Well this is odd since my outgoing message had actual text in it.
What I meant to ask was Does it happen in all browsers?.
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Anyone know of a way, simple or not, to get a full list of the queries used
in the generation of a page?
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What I meant to ask was Does it happen in all browsers?.
Yup, Netscape and IE - it's actually the graphic that's generated - if we
open it in PhotoShop it's got a dapple effect on it
I'm assuming that it doesn't do this if you use a websafe colour in the
background?
If you aren't able to turn on debugging, another option would be to place
all of your queries into a structure.. then either loop over that
structure
using CFLOOP or use CFDUMP.
I can use debugging. I have built a custom tool to help debug sites and it
displays vars etc in a pop-up window. I
call it like cfset mybody = makeNiceEmail(mybody,70)
cfscript
function makeNiceEmail(string, theLength) {
CRLF=chr(13);
for (i=theLength-1;i LTE Len(string);i=i+theLength){
string = Insert(CRLF,string,i);
}
return string;
}
/cfscript
CRLF chould be chr(13) chr(10) shouldn't
(OT?) TomCat vs JRun
No question at all. Its totally OT.
What do people think about the increasing number of off topic posts on this
list? Should they be tolerated as long as they are marked as OT? Or should
we be actively trying to ensure that the signal to noise ratio on this list
stays low
I for one welcome SOT posts. I've never been one to wear CF blinders.
Certainly valid in a general sense but I'm not sure if that is an valid
comment for a list whose purpose is the discussion of CF related matters.
I'm pretty darned interested in Tomcat myself (to drag this back to the
Afterall, where else can
one find a
collective gathering of experts in related fields such as this list
provides???
And there are any number of effective resources where these questions can be
answered as well. In fact there are also some lists that do specifically
discuss a broader range
I have received your e-mail but will be out of the office 9/9/01.
I will be checking messages while away and will get back to you
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Dan Tesenair.
Can we automatically unsub people who do this?
Sure, but the ISAPI version is not stable and barely usable even just for
testing purposes.
You're basing this on what?
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1) The readme file available inside the binaries downloaded from php.net
I don't think that they said or implied that the Windows binaries are
barely usable even just for testing purposes only that they are not as
stable or as fully tested as the Linux versions.
2) My own experience
YMMV
Now, I am not an english native speaker, so I maybe I am not understaning
too well, but I definitely get the feeling the ISAPI module is not stable.
Stability is one thing. Your statement was that it was so unstable that it
wasn't even any use as a testing platform which is another thing
Frankly I'm not surprised. Have you been to the Allaire Forums
lately? I could well be wrong, but it seems to me that what was
once a large cadre of experienced and long-time regulars helping
out others and actively discussing relevant CF issues ... well,
they're just plain gone. There
just curious as to which web server folks are using in conjunction with CF
*on their laptops/desktops*.
(not a production enviroment, just for goofing around).
Apache.
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In my experience it was much easier to get PHP (and Perl) running under
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Aesthetic bug - Shouldn't there be a property for number formatting? You
can't pass in a value with numberformat around it or cf complains. In my
case I'm passing in numbers that are in the millions and it doesn't look
very good. Am I missing something here?
You mean like:
cfgraphdata
You got it. The cf error I got was something like, Can't convert string
to number. The only difference between the way I was doing it and how
you have it below is the mask. My mask was like, '9,999,999'.
I assume that you've checked to make sure that the data is a number or can
be converted
I tested to make sure I was passing in a number by doing an isnumeric()
on the variable and it is a number. The conclusion that I've come to is
that the tag, or flash doesn't like the commas, which I think is a bug.
You would think though that it was Flash (or Generator) that you wouldn't
I have tried masking it before and it still chokes. And yes, the code
works fine if I just pass in numbers with no mask. Have you successfully
passed in masked numbers using commas? I was hoping to hear from
somebody that's done this successfully. That way I could rule out a
problem with the
Does anyone know of any decent open source content management systems,
preferably in modular format.
Not sure what you mean about modularity but I have recently released a CMS
for small to mid-sized sites.
You can download the code (you have to Join the site as a member first) at
CVS is an open source management system...I posted it as a project
management system earlier (Oops...sorry all!), but it is an open source
Content Versioning System (Hence CVS).
Actually it stands for Concurrent Versions System and I don't think its
the same as what most people would think of
Well it looks like this whole fiasco with code red has finally had
Microsoft doing some extra work.
A careful reading of the page would seem to indicate that the code was
written by a third party. Frighteningly typical.
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Is anyone else having any issues?
On and off for months.
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but the # errors out.
Have you tried escaping it?
tempstring = REREplace(tempstring, ##, , all)
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Has anyone
else seen this or know what I need to add to my configuration files.
Might not be terribly helpful but I've not had any trouble of this sort with
Apache. I simply used the default httpd.conf file that shipped with it and
added the ColdFusion module load line
Are you using a
Can someone suggest some tutorial/information pages on
integrating flash and
Cold Fusion? I know it *can* be done, but how is a different story
entirely.
FlashCFM has some interesting tutorials
http://www.flashcfm.com/
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Does anyone know of any incompatibility using Apache and CFObject to create
instances of Java classes?
I know CFOBject isn't supported under Linux but does this extend to Apache
as well?
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stuff doesn't have anything to do with the web server. I've used
COM objects
with CFOBJECT on Apache/Win32.
That is odd then. I'm trying to access the Xerces XML parser(s) in the
xerces.jar file and I was able to access them using IIS but since I've
changed over to Apache I just get class
you sure the xerces jar is in the CF Server's classpath?
Yup. Haven't moved it or edited the calsspath settings since I changed over
to IIS
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