I've just come up against what seems like an undocumented variable issue with CFMX, thought I'd share it with y'all.
A tag for validating URLs from form input broke in MX, and has never broken before in other versions of CF. In in, there is a list of variable declarations that set booleans according to the protocol in the form field value: http = Left(fieldValue, 7) EQ "http://";; https = Left(fieldValue, 8) EQ "https://";; ftp = Left(fieldValue, 6) EQ "ftp://";; gopher = Left(fieldValue, 9) EQ "gopher://";; telnet = Left(fieldValue, 9) EQ "telnet://";; nntp = Left(fieldValue, 7) EQ "nntp://";; wais = Left(fieldValue, 7) EQ "wais://";; This code generated an exception with this message: "cannot convert the value of type class coldfusion.runtime.CgiScope to a boolean" I went spare trying to figure this one out until a friend suggested that http, wais, ftp, etc. might now be reserved words. Sure enough, this code: IsHTTP = Left(fieldValue, 7) EQ "http://";; IsHTTPS = Left(fieldValue, 8) EQ "https://";; IsFTP = Left(fieldValue, 6) EQ "ftp://";; IsGOPHER = Left(fieldValue, 9) EQ "gopher://";; IsTELNET = Left(fieldValue, 9) EQ "telnet://";; IsNNTP = Left(fieldValue, 7) EQ "nntp://";; IsWAIS = Left(fieldValue, 7) EQ "wais://";; works fine. So don't use URL protocols as variable names with MX!! Is there a community log of any sort for undocumented MX bugs? Would be nice to have ONE place to go to to check and report stuff... MM LiveDocs? The other issue is: for all my apps, I use dot notation in URL vars, e.g. http://localhost/index.cfm?action=content.view&ID=23 Everything *seems* to work on MX, but I'm just wondering about how URL.action - with that bit of "plain" dot notation (i.e. no structure implied) - stands now with MX not supporting this sort of non-structure dot notation? Could there be any problems with this? thanks, - Gyrus ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: http://www.tengai.co.uk play: http://www.norlonto.net - PGP key available ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ______________________________________________________________________ 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/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
