Hi Bill Off the top of my head I can't think of a reason why that wouldn't work, but to my mind, relying on the server's error catching to perform designed functionality just "feels" wrong - it feels like bad design, and it's shifting some of your logic from the application itself to the server software that it's running under. Just my opinion, of course, but if it was me, I'd either - - make the default CFM template strip the name of the directory out of the url and check it against the query.
- use a url such as http://www.mycompany.com/contacts/BillHenderson , and put an extension-less file called "contacts" in the root. Make IIS pass files with no extension through CF and put your logic to get the name, check the query and re-locate, into that contacts file. I've used this myself many times on many different webservers, with no problems. Hope that helps! Alistair Alistair Davidson Application Developer www.smartgroups.com Freeserve.com PLC -----Original Message----- From: Bill Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 August 2002 09:05 To: CF-Talk Subject: Can anybody see a problem with this? Hey All - The marketing department of my company wanted to have a list of directories with names of marketing contacts. (http://www.mycompany.com/BillHenderson/, etc) I first set up a tool using cfdirectory and cffile to create the directories and put the files in them. I found that making changes to the files in the directories or adding new directories or deleting the directories caused quite a lot of problems, not to mention the clutter it caused in the root directory of the site, so I came up with this idea, that does not actually use any custom directories at all, and I want to know if anybody can see possible security problems, server resource issues, etc. 1. The user enters the URL in browser with custom directory at the end 2. IIS catches the 404 error and uses a custom cfm template 3. The cfm template pulls the directory out of the url and checks it against a list of names from a cached query 4. If it find a match, it cf_locations to a template with custom content for the marketing contact 5. If no match is found, it cf_locations to the standard 404b.htm from IIS. Any insight would be appreciated. Bill Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ 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: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
