[ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Giles Roadnight
Can anyone tell me why I am getting a wierd capital A with a hat on before £ signs in a text field when I update a DB record? Thanks Giles -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

RE: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Aidan Whitehall
Can anyone tell me why I am getting a wierd capital A with a hat on before £ signs in a text field when I update a DB record? Is that the escape character for whatever RDBMS you're using? Maybe it's automatically escaping it. -- Aidan Whitehall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Macromedia ColdFusion

Re: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Giles Roadnight
Each time it is updated more of the weird symbold appear, am now getting square boxes too. I think this is a new problem since upgrading to MX. - Original Message - From: Giles Roadnight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 9:56 AM Subject: [ cf-dev

Re: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Giles Roadnight
Errr, sorry what tdo you mean by that? - Original Message - From: Aidan Whitehall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 9:57 AM Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB Can anyone tell me why I am getting a wierd capital A with a hat on before £

RE: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Aidan Whitehall
Errr, sorry what tdo you mean by that? I'm not sure how to explain that clearly (got brain fuzz today). What database are you using? Access, SQL Server, Oracle...? -- Aidan Whitehall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Macromedia ColdFusion Developer Fairbanks Environmental +44 (0)1695 51775

Re: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Taz -=TT=-
There was a similar thread a few weeks ago... might help Character Conversion 28/08/2002 Taz Can anyone tell me why I am getting a wierd capital A with a hat on before £ signs in a text field when I update a DB record? Thanks Giles -- ** Archive:

Re: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Giles Roadnight
access 2000 - Original Message - From: Aidan Whitehall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 10:02 AM Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB Errr, sorry what tdo you mean by that? I'm not sure how to explain that clearly (got brain fuzz today).

Re: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Dave Phipps
I also experienced this whilst developing a site using MX. The prod server was still running CF5 and this solved our problem. I think it has something to do with the default text encoding being UTF-8, but I may be wrong. I think you have to either convert them to pound; or whatever the

Re: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Giles Roadnight
That's a bit of a pain. What other characters are going to mess it up? I think I had a related problem with worldpay submitting forms to CFMX adn the caracter encoding messing things up. Isn't there a urlencodedformat equivalent function that will do all this for me? - Original Message -

RE: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (REC)
'escaping', if that is what you did not understand is simply the the way a system such as ColdFusion implements so to make a string/packet/whatever valid. hence, in a .cfm, this will fail : #FF, to get this to work you have to 'escape' the gates (or pounds as out lovely yanks call them) :

Re: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Giles Roadnight
No worldpay does not use XML, it uses 16 bit character encoding but apparently CFMX only understands 8bit. - Original Message - From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (REC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 10:11 AM Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

[ cf-dev ] UUID cftoken on CF 5

2002-10-16 Thread Dave Phipps
Hi, Is it possible to use a UUID as the CFToken instead of the usual random number on CF5? I think I remember reading about it somewhere. MTIA Dave Phipps CF Development Oxford, Oxfordshire. Telephone: +44(0)7718 896696

Re: [ cf-dev ] UUID cftoken on CF 5

2002-10-16 Thread Tom Smith
It was on the list the other day under session variables... I believe it's a registry setting. - Original Message - From: Dave Phipps [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ColdFusion User group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 10:40 AM Subject: [ cf-dev ] UUID cftoken on CF 5 Hi,

RE: [ cf-dev ] UUID cftoken on CF 5

2002-10-16 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (REC)
Dave, here you go : 1. Select Start and Run. 2. Type regedit and click OK. 3. Navigate to the following registry key: 4. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Allaire\ColdFusion\CurrentVersion\Clients\UuidTo ken If the key does not exist, right click on the Clients key and choose New

RE: [ cf-dev ] UUID cftoken on CF 5

2002-10-16 Thread Dave Phipps
Thanks for that. I have now made the change and restarted the service however I am still getting the 8 digit cftoken. Is there anything in my code that I need to change so that I end up with CFID=2CFTOKEN=83D000-3435355. Thanks Dave At 10:43 10/16/2002 +0100, you wrote: Dave, here

RE: [ cf-dev ] UUID cftoken on CF 5

2002-10-16 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (REC)
what did you add to the registry... -Original Message- From: Dave Phipps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 October 2002 11:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] UUID cftoken on CF 5 Thanks for that. I have now made the change and restarted the service however I am

RE: [ cf-dev ] UUID cftoken on CF 5

2002-10-16 Thread Rich Wild
Did you throw away your cookies? If you have an old CFID/cftoken cookie you still get 'old' tokens, no matter what is in the registry. -Original Message- From: Dave Phipps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 October 2002 11:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] UUID

RE: [ cf-dev ] UUID cftoken on CF 5

2002-10-16 Thread Dave Phipps
I added a key called Uuidtoken and set the value to 1. I then restarted the cf app service. I am not currently using cookies only sessions which I hold on to by passing the CFID and CFTOKEN in the url. Thanks Dave At 11:06 10/16/2002 +0100, you wrote: what did you add to the registry...

RE: [ cf-dev ] UUID cftoken on CF 5

2002-10-16 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (REC)
check the cookie directory anyway.I am sure the CFIDE uses them? could be wrong, but I think they do. -Original Message- From: Dave Phipps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 October 2002 11:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] UUID cftoken on CF 5 I added a key

Re: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Giles Roadnight
Is Windows 2000 a multi byte operating system? If so there is some possibly relevent stuff here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/releasenotes/mx/releasenotes_mx .html#i18n near the bottom of the bit on localisation. two command line things I will probably have to run. -

RE: [ cf-dev ] UUID cftoken on CF 5

2002-10-16 Thread Dave Phipps
If you mean the cookies dir in the WINNT dir then this is empty. In the Clients registry there are huge number of folders holding the client vars. Are these worth deleting if no longer needed? Thanks Dave At 11:18 10/16/2002 +0100, you wrote: check the cookie directory anyway.I am

[ cf-dev ] SO Odditor / This is not secure in any way

2002-10-16 Thread Damian Watson
Hi all, I've got a problem an a page where I'm getting an alert on load saying this is not secure in any way! . All there is in the page though is a simple select query and a So Editor Lite tag which is the only thing i could think would cause this. Just wondering if anyone has come across this

Re: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Giles Roadnight
Ok, I'll give that a go. Can't right now as am away from that code. I'll do it tonight. Tahnks - Original Message - From: Douglas Humphris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 11:35 AM Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB Had the same problem

Re: [ cf-dev ] SO Odditor / This is not secure in any way

2002-10-16 Thread Damian Watson
Here ya go: cfoutput query=get_text cf_soEditor_lite form=update_text field=update_text html=#update_text# scriptpath=#request.soeditor# width=450 height=300 singlespaced=false wordcount=true validateonsave=true

RE: [ cf-dev ] SO Odditor / This is not secure in any way

2002-10-16 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (REC)
check the code it is pulling from the DB.I bet there is a script tag in there. -Original Message- From: Damian Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 October 2002 11:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] SO Odditor / This is not secure in any way Here ya go:

Re: [ cf-dev ] SO Odditor / This is not secure in any way

2002-10-16 Thread Damian Watson
I bet there is a script tag in there. Neil is right, replacing the offending data fixed the problem. I'd suggest that anyone using inline editors should clean fields of naughty script tags when submitting to a query. CleanFields.cfm (available from dev exchange) can be customised to do this and

RE: [ cf-dev ] UUID cftoken on CF 5

2002-10-16 Thread Niklas Richardson
Yup! -Original Message- From: Dave Phipps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] UUID cftoken on CF 5 If you mean the cookies dir in the WINNT dir then this is empty. In the Clients registry

RE: [ cf-dev ] SO Editor

2002-10-16 Thread Colm Brazel
Just taken a look at So-editor-lite, installed the files on server including the custom tag and made a small change to apache, and called the custom tag at the end of a test page with the default, form action=myfile.cfm cf_soEditor_lite form=documentation field=soeditor

[ cf-dev ] CFMX install probs on Win2k IIS5

2002-10-16 Thread Dave Phipps
Hi, I have just installed CFMX on a Win2k SP3/IIS5 running on a Virtual PC. Everything seems to have installed except when I try and load the CFMX administrator all I get is a dns error/ cannot find server. Yet when I know that the web server is running as I can load localstart.asp. Has

RE: [ cf-dev ] CFMX install probs on Win2k IIS5

2002-10-16 Thread Russ 'Snake' Michaels
Install problems has been posted on here 100 times now. If you refer back to previous posts you can find a solution. -Original Message- From: Dave Phipps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 October 2002 15:51 To: ColdFusion User group Subject: [ cf-dev ] CFMX install probs on Win2k IIS5

FW: [ cf-dev ] SO Editor

2002-10-16 Thread Colm Brazel
Hi, Message below sent around 3pm, does not appear to have got through to list, thanks. rgds Colm -Original Message- From: Colm Brazel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 October 2002 15:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] SO Editor Just taken a look at

RE: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Giles Roadnight
No, I'm afraid that didn't work. Anyone know if windows 2000 is a multi-byte OS? Giles Roadnight http://giles.roadnight.name -Original Message- From: Douglas Humphris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 October 2002 11:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in

RE: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Douglas Humphris
Just to clarify, did you use cfset setEncoding(FORM, utf-8) as opposed to setEncoding(FORM, utf-8) in my earlier post? Didn't make that very clear. Douglas -Original Message- From: Giles Roadnight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 October 2002 17:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

[ cf-dev ] OT: html editing in netscape

2002-10-16 Thread Rich Wild
about fricking time: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/16.html#rich_editing_in_mozilla --- Rich Wild Senior Web Developer --- e-mango Tel: 01202 755 300 Gild

RE: [ cf-dev ] Weird sybols in DB

2002-10-16 Thread Giles Roadnight
No I didn't. I have now used cfset setEncoding(FORM, utf-8) and it now works. Thanks a lot. Giles Roadnight http://giles.roadnight.name -Original Message- From: Douglas Humphris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 October 2002 17:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ]

Re: [ cf-dev ] Forcing a job to wait / file attributes

2002-10-16 Thread Taz -=TT=-
Seems a bit cumbersome all that lot, but probably necessary if there are file operations being done by other apps. But if the file ops are purely done by the CF app, its much easier to use (exclusive) named locks. You can use the filename as the name of the lock, and do that with any file