Off Topic: How do you do a screen shot with Win 2000?
Alt + Print Screen does it for me on Win2K Pro and Server.
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From: Mak Wing Lok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 4:37 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: OT : format textarea text
sorry for the OT, but i do read the
Don't panic yet. I believe a FAQ is in the works that will explain all
this.
Stay tuned.
Ahh, but will the FAQ arrive before we all spend the weekend planning our
alternatives? :)
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I'm betting the change isn't as drastic as we're
making it out to be though.
Actually, the wording of the first announcement really did make it out to be
pretty bad if you paid attention to what it very specifically said, hence
todays lengthy comments. The clarification just posted, however,
What happens (if ) when MM goes ahead with these plans,
and the shared hosts stop supporting CF4.5?
If they already provide CF services then they've already spent the money and
have income flowing from it. Hard to see them suddenly dropping CF when they
can just choose not to upgrade?
Ken
What I am curious about is after this scare is over, just how many
developers have decided to move on to another language.
Sounds like more work for those of us left behind. :)
Ken
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That's why you might not want to be locked into a solution from a
small-time, unpredictable vendor who tries to compete with some of the
bigger players in an industry where it has no respect, no brand-name
recognition and very little developer support.
Is this how you describe
What Macromedia appears to be doing with
ColdFusion is position the product as an alternative to widely recognized,
widely deployed solutions by other, larger, more successful, reputable and
experienced vendors.
Can you provide a few concrete examples of these alternative solutions that
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/
http://www.bea.com/products/weblogic/server/index.shtml
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/guide/server/features/application.asp
That explains your outlook a bit. Based on Macromedia/Allaire statements
since the merger, MS is the only one
also check out dynamo at www.atg.com.
While I've not been involved in a project with Dynamo, I would have to ask
whether it and CF are actually aimed at the same market as Seva was implying
with the others. ATG, BEA and IBM solutions all have an excellent
reputations and are very capable
I'm still going to brush up on my ASP though
Not a bad move careerwise in general, but I would think this is a better
time to concentrate on appreciating the policy change and the fact that
Macromedia responded affirmatively (and rapidly) to the feedback offered.
Just my opinion of course.
use Duplicate(), and make sure you have the Duplicate() hotfix applied.
The hotfix download page says the problem exists in v4.51 SP2 but then goes
on to say This fix is only available to CF Server Enterprise customers.
Does this mean that the problem is only with the Enterprise version? Or
Not the best way perhaps but how about just going to a few search engines
and do a search on .cfm. Gets hits for me.
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From: Bud [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:20 PM
Subject: .cfm extension and URLs
Hi all. I'm having
Fusetalk
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From: Ray Bujarski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
Second question: http://www.siteobjects.com/ offers EzEdit and SoEdit
which fit
the bill perfectly - but after two days I am unable to get either to work
properly. Has anyone had any luck with this?
SoEdit is still early beta with several features missing. I use EzEdit in a
few places
Just run your query again with cachedwithin=#CreateTimeSpan(0,0,0,0)#
I take the lazy way out.
When building an app I set a request.QueryCacheTime value to whatever
desired and then simply reference that in my queries where appropriate. When
data is updated I reset request.QueryCacheTime to
You could start by hiring a more intelligent Sys Admin. :)
Ken
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From: "Jamie Jackson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 11:21 AM
Subject: Security hole in basic authorization... Solutions?
Say I'm a developer, but
...I'm using 4.01 since 4.51 is such crap.
Really??
I've had no problems with v4.51. What's your beef with it?
Ken
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The thing that bugged me was the user isn't given an option to not have
any existing defaults changed during installation, NS6 just makes the
changes without asking.
I was given the choice during the installation of NS6. Said no and all works
just like it always has.
Ken
One of the daily Conference newsletters also mentioned that they would be
available via the Allaire FTP site following the conference but the path
given currently throws an error.
Ken
allaire is sending the attendees all CD's.
Simon Horwith
Certified ColdFusion Developer
Fig Leaf
If you liked Analog, it works on NT too. And it's free. And it doesn't
try
to make up statistics that can't be determined...
Analog and ReportMagic are a great combination and the price is right. If
you haven't used ReportMagic, take a look:
Right. But this requires changing the value of CACHEDWITHIN twice.
Re-starting CF is much *simpler* (for me).
But resetting CACHEDWITHIN is very simple, only takes a few milliseconds to
accomplish progammatically and doesn't impact your site negatively in any
way. Re-starting CF takes your
Re-starting CF takes your whole app offline for the duration of the
re-start.
It also kills every other cached query on the server whether they needed
killing or not. Which means the performance of the rest of your app is
impacted negatively by the effort to flush a single cached query.
Ken
I generally extract most of my queries out into their own files and
cfinclude them where/as needed (yes, I confess, I use a variation of
Fusebox). After updating data I simply recall the query setting the cache
time to zero. Maybe this snippet will help confuse you further. :)
!--- DO MY
Stick your Win2K CD back in, go to Add/Remove Programs in the Control
Panels, select Add/Remove Windows Components and add IIS.
Ken
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From: "Todd Ashworth" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 2:08 PM
Subject: Web server
Anyone know wher I can get help in decrypting some code? I need to make
some modifications for a client but his pre-packaged app has an encrypted
admin section.
Just a reminder...
You might want to check the license agreement before decrypting that code or
contact the author directly. In
Perhaps even a toolbar like the CFML Basic and other toolbars that
launch applications would be nice.
CF Studio already offers that using the Custom Toolbar and Button options.
Ken
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Internal sites and extranets don't get a lot of traffic.
Not so sure that's a safe assumption to make. Internal sites are frequently
far more data intensive and interactive such that, while actually traffic
volume may be lower, the processing load on a server may be far higher than
a simple
I am still experiencing huge memory leaks but I notice it is from
Inetinfo.exe and NOT CF. There is no doubt in my mind the CF is the
culprit,
So if you've pinned it down to Inetinfo why are you blaming it on something
else? Just curious what your logic is.
Ken
Very well said! I always look forward to reading Dave's posts
because of the quality and thinking put in them.
Ditto. Most amazing of all is that the quality seems to continue even when
the annual message count approaches the 4-digit range. :)
Thanks to Dave and a few other senior citizens
Aha! Looks like they've removed it...perhaps to fix the zero-length Help
file problem before anyone else downloads it. Hopefully they'll also move
the Edit Tag menu item back to the top of the "right-click" menu (where it's
been for years) before they re-post it.
Ken
I'm trying to download
Are the opponents Figleaf employees? One of them looks a lot like
Dave Watts.;-)
Might that be the ornery one with grey hair and dentures?
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I believe Allaire took it offline because it caused so many problems. So
there really isn't a list of improvements, unless its a vaporware claim.
I've been using it since it's initial release and haven't experienced any
real problems apart from the zero length Help Files.
Ken
FWIF, I'm not seeing that in the final release with installations on Win2K
Pro and Server.
Ken
I'm using it with Win 2K and find it irritating that it uses an .html
suffix--even when I set it up to use .cfm as a default. Has
anyone else seen
this, or is this possibly a Win2K issue?
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Is this not almost double last years record for Dave? Geez...amazing a
Senior Citizen like him can type that much. :)
Ken
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I've used a variation of this one without problems:
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From: "Cami Lawson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 11:49 AM
Subject: Continuous Clock
I have a
It'd be cool if it worked in Netscape.
Yeah, that would be nice. I got spoiled working on that IE-only Intranet.
;)
Ken
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Are there compression methods available to send XML to a client browser?
Bookmarked this awhile back but haven't checked it out since...
http://www.xmlsolutions.com/resources/xmlzip.xml?id=resources_xmlzip
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My experience has been just the opposite of yours, both with regard to their
personnel and the details of their account offerings and charges. While I
know at least one of us (Bud, I believe) had performance issues with their
servers, I've had excellent service and performance from them with
Anyone here have experience with Eprise Participant Server?
Thanks to non-technical management decisions in another division, I now find
myself inheriting a couple of Eprise server licenses with instructions from
the CEO to make the investment worthwhile.
I'm looking for info, opinions, tech
Plus you can get to everyone's site through everyone else's domain.
Fortunately all it takes is a little creative CF code and that problem goes
away. Just don't bother with the redirect script they offer.
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I encountered that issue with Intermedia regarding the server a client site
was on. At the time, they said that they had many long-term clients on the
older servers with established stable applications that were hesitant to
upgrade. While they initially made a comment regarding stability of CF
Will CGI.REMOTE_USER not give you enough to work with? I use that to make it
a transparent process for IE users. Netscape users muddy the water a bit but
can still be dealt with if required. So what's your setup like? NT/IIS? What
browsers?
Ken
We were actually looking at a way to
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From: Ken Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 5:42 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: How to access client's NT system/user environment vars?
Will CGI.REMOTE_USER not give you enough to work with? I use
that to make it
a transparent process for IE users
Not a direct answer but a lead perhaps. The Q/A section references a
"Commercial Licensing Program".
Question:
Licensing Can I use Processor Licenses to commercially host applications
running on .NET Enterprise Server products?
Answer:
Microsoft does offer Processor Licenses for .NET Enterprise
I do believe you'll need to use the callScript event to include CF/ASP/JSP
code within your Eprise pages. If you still have your samples installed you
might take a look at
http://YOUR_SERVER/eprise/samples/help/Events/callScript for some
info/examples. While you're there take a look at
If they are using Word or Powerpoint 2000 all they have to do si save the
file as an HTML file.
Have you ever looked at the quality of the code that method generates?
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I know that some of us are hosting some cf websites with Interland, I just
want to make everyone aware that Interland raised there prices last week
on
all there cf plans from $50/month to $150/month. All there accounts will
be
effected with this price change new and old. My salesperson stated
I worked on one Fusebox
application and it was a little tedious. But probably because I was not
used
to the methodology.
I can't help on the other methodologies but, being a full-time FuseBox fan,
I can tell you that getting started with it can be a bit tedious. It's not
difficult at all but
I belong to some ASP lists and this price increase has effected ASP
developers the same as CF developers.
Maybe they just failed to update their website, but Interland currently
advertises $27.95 as the cheapest ASP account and $149.95 as the cheapest CF
account.
I do believe it's based on the entire *exact* contents of the cfquery tag.
One simple change effectively makes it a different query...even just adding
a space to it.
Ken
Quick question on cached queries:
Are queries cached and retrieved from cache based on the query name or the
SQL within
so if you want to use a cached query in more than one place, CFINCLUDE
it.
That way, you know all instances of that query are going to be identical.
Yep...like all good Fuseboxers do. :)
Also makes it trivial to flush that cached query after doing an
add/delete/update that would
Min's here's basically left the cf community...
Not good news. So what's it take to get you back?
Ken
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Seems to me that question assumes that CF/Allaire are going to stop
supporting both options which, based on their published materials, is not
the case. So, use CF and keep your options wide open rather than lock
yourself into one single path. :)
Ken
Isn't the question ... To ASP or JSP?
I would presume it's because the "merger" with Macromedia was completed.
Ken
Please excuse me if this has already been mentioned today, but does anyone
know why Allaire's stock has a hold on it? It did not trade at all today.
I can not find a news release explaining what is happening.
3) ezEdit (www.siteobjects.com)
I don't use it myself but have installed it on a client site. They really
like it. Couldn't be easier to implement.
Ken
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You use SSL the same in CF as you would in any application.
Didn't CF at one time require you to run the server in a less-than-desirable
mode if you needed to connect via SSL?
Ken
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Actually, all that info is now on the public site:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/ultradev/
Please note that this product is still under NDA from what I know
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Some of us out here actually KNOW HOW TO CODE! We don't need bloatware
handholding to create high-quality sites.
And some of us that know how to code also know how to *properly* use a
Visual Design Tool where and when appropriate to the task and/or team
environment at hand. Just because a
On our Intranet site I'm grabbing headlines and writing them to a database
on a scheduled basis so that users can pull them from the db rather than
having to go out and fetch them every time they login. Not exactly "caching"
in the sense that you are asking about but it accomplishes the same goal
Now if we could drag and drop column and table names from the
window on the
left (thats where I have it) into the cfml/html code on the right window
pane... then we'd have a productive db tool. (Hint Hint Hint)
Maybe I'm missing what you are wishing for here but I drag and drop table
and
You can do that too. Just click on the first name, then the last and drag
them all down. Or selectively click using your mouse and control key.
That works for me in the Query Builder which I rarely use but not in the
database tab area where I want it.
Ken
:)
Given the million-plus people in our metropolitan area there outta be a few
interested CF folks around but we haven't done anything serious about it
yet.
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Because your html page isn't processed by the CF Server...only CFM pages.
You can configure your system to parse html pages with CF Server if you
really want to but it's easier to just rename it to CFM.
Ken
Never mind, I took the hint and renamed the page with a .cfm extension
and it now
ur
comments leave me with a negative impression of AbleCommerce unless you have
some specific claim to make regarding the other product...it just sounds
like sour grapes directed at a smaller competitor.
Ken Wilson
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I checked the manual on cfhttp and I didn't found anything related to
timeout option.
Here's what the online docs from v4.5.1 say is available:
CFHTTP URL="hostname"
PORT="port_number"
METHOD="get_or_post"
USERNAME="username"
PASSWORD="password"
NAME="queryname"
There are third party "plug-ins" for Acrobat 4.0 that can do this. An
example would be the electronic version on CD-ROM of the Mastering
ColdFusion 4.0 book by Armin Danesh.
I was a little dissapointed in that, actually, since it insisted that I
downgrade to version 3 of Acrobat if I wanted
Have you taken a look at Swatch over at Defusion:
http://www.defusion.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=45
I'm not familiar with the features of the commercial apps mentioned but
Swatch has worked well for me in the past when I've tested it.
Worth a look perhaps...
Ken
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over at defusion.com downloading another copy to see if
it can monitor a remote url, send both up and down alerts and use a mail
server not resident on the same box, then it'd probably be the way to go.
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From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have you taken
CF Studio includes a single-user version of CF Server Enterprise that should
solve your problem.
Ken
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From: P Broussard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:07 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: ColdFusion license agreement
So I got a job that
But did MM ever respond to the discussion where it was pointed out that
using it for Dev work was not legal according to the current license?
Ken
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From: Carlisle, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:41 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE:
Certainly someone or a larger group of
people were not actively doing their jobs.
I'm certainly comforted to know someone here on the CF-Talk list knows how
to stop a kamikaze terrorist with a death wish in control of an airliner.
Have you passed your advice along to the Feds yet? :)
Ken
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
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What kind of info are you looking for?
ezEdit functions as a form field. When you submit it you're free to
insert/update a database, if desired, just as you would any other form
submission.
Ken
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From: Lenny Sorey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, September 23,
I've even applied the hot fix,and still the applet won't load...
I rarely use their applets but seem to recall some mention of CF5 applets
requiring a JVM upgrade before being able to use them. Might want to check
that if you haven't.
Ken
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http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq/#answer196
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From: Scott Van Vliet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 9:15 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: CFFILE / IE 5 on Mac Problems!
I am having uber-huge problems with CFFILE and IE 5 on the Mac.
Care to follow up with more detail regarding that quote...
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From: Peter Tilbrook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 2:16 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: SOT: BroadVision
We were looking for a solution to support high-volume transaction
processing
How many lists are they running? And how many thousands of users are they
sending each message to for each list?
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From: Bruce H. Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 4:02 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Is CF-Talk running slow
This list has
It's not a Netscape version issue. Only IE will being able to login unless
you go back and check off the Basic Authentication box on the tab where
you turned off Anonymous Access. Do keep in mind the caution noted there
about passwords being passed in clear text.
Ken
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I've not seen a new one but have really missed being able to use the old
one. I seem to recall some discussion that it stopped working in v4.5 due to
Allaire adding the requirement that you had to actually click the submit
button on the Admin page rather than simply making the change remotely as
Could there be a hidden function call that tells CF to
re-examine the IP list?
Not sure. Seems like I recall seeing some mention of a work-around at one
point but I never pursued the issue. Perhaps related to the CFRegistry tag?
Sure would be nice to get that convenience back.
The presence of a link in the cell is irrelevant to the cells' BG color.
Have you defined a style at the TD level, applied an existing style to that
specific TD or defined specific styles at that level?
Ken
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From: Tangorre, Michael T. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
and possiblities.
I thought maybe
TD.nav:hover{..} might work.
Does this clear my problem up at all?
Thanks for the help
Mike
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From: Ken Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 2:39 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Off Topic
The presence of a link
Fusebox is a methodology that may not bode
well with the stuff in cf6.
Or it may be perfectly suited to it...unless, of course, you are saying that
from a position of detailed knowledge regarding both NEO and Fusebox3.
Might be well to check with someone who attended the Fusebox conference
I'd think that number is kinda small...
Compared to what?
What would you guess that number was based upon...what was the likely
source?
Ken
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If you are using SQL or Oracle, you will need Enterprise to
connect using ODBC
Huh? I connect to SQL Server via ODBC with Pro. Enterprise versions gets you
native drivers for some DB's but SQL is covered in the Pro version.
Ken
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Since Intermedia doesn't give you access to the CF Admin to set it at the
DSN level, you'll need to pass the user/password in via the cfquery tag.
Ken
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From: Douglas Jordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:54 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject:
I've been very happy with Analog. Free and fast.
Ditto. Add in a little Report Magic for prettier graphs and clients have
been very happy. Also, it's pretty easy to automate so that clients can
generate their own reports on-demand.
http://www.reportmagic.com/
Ken
My dad used to do some computer programming in ancient days
when they had analog computers.
I can't wait to hear what my 7 year-old son will be saying about my webdev
work a couple of decades from now. :)
Ken
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Picking up a copy of one of the many ColdFusion development books would be a
great first step and would get you on your way real fast. Bookpool
http://www.bookpool.com tends to have the best prices from what I've seen
but all the major book sites offer a range of CF books.
Ken
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Hmmm, interesting comment.
What I assume to be my SessionID from my current Amazon.com sessions:
IE Session: 104-8981534-3506318
NS6 Session: 102-524-0108134
CFTOKENs for my current sessions on my CF Server:
IE Session: 3c154df-3b8b20b0-54b8-4cfa-8ebb-be0b2ac13e32
NS6 Session:
Yeah, probably wasn't fair to use that example without explaining the
background. Are you aware of any drawbacks to using this rather than the
default method? Seems like it should be setup that way by default or at
least should be configurable via the CFAdmin given the ease of guessing the
other
the uuidToken
which would be alphanumeric and identical in structure to a regular uuid. I
looked in the registry for 5.0 and can no longer find the correct key.
Doug
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From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 6:39
I'm not sure why it's not the default, either;
my guess is backward-compatibility.
That would make sense. I've heard mention of needing to increase the DB
field size to accomodate the extended length. I've always found (v4.5+ at
least) that CF created fields of proper size even before making
Can you post the exact code snippet that you are using for the
deleteclientvariable(myvar) method? Perhaps we'll see something being
missed.
Ken
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From: David Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 8:20 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Client
oof! do you also keep Mozart and Snoop Doggie-Dog on the same
shelf too? :)
I do. :)
Ken
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I was having problems with 4.5.1 and then I downloaded 4.5.1a
Are you sure you mean 4.5.1a rather than 4.5a??
Where did you find it at and what are the included bug fixes?
Ken
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If I recall correctly, you can't directly access cfhttp.filecontent at
Intermedia due to their security setup. Seems like the solution was to write
the data to disk first and then immediately read it...if you can stand the
performance hit. However, its been awhile since I messed with it there.
Finally, I'd like to point out that many kinds of "what if" questions,
commonly asked on the list, are best answered with five minutes
of testing.
Perhaps Allaire could also take this approach when writing their docs? :)
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