Hmm, thats a fun one. I've heard of people trying to do strange things with session management. Like trying to keep the user on the same cfid/cftoken forever by looking at their login and finding a cfid that matches then resetting the cfid for the user. Stuff like that. I would see if you can find something like that.
Also, I would writeout session.spanish1#cfid##cftoken# to the browser ie (<cfoutput>session.spanish1#cfid##cftoken#</cfoutput> and see what it gives. Perhaps its getting a space appended to cfid and cftoken for some reason. You might switch it to StructKeyExists(session, "spanish1#cfid##cftoken#") which may be a bit more tolerant than isdefined. It does seem like a strange piece of code because youre individualizing a session var. A session var is already individual by its nature as opposed to an application var. DRE -----Original Message----- From: Richard Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: The Ongoing Saga of the Dead Session Variable To recap: When users to our site (running CFMX (with Updater 3 applied) on top of JRun 4 (sp 1a applied) on top of Apache 2.44 with a SQL Server 2000 backend -- ew) happen to clear their cache and cookies while logged into our site, they can never log in again. I must point out that this is a newly discovered behavior, and our site has been working fine for years. Originally I thought that this error was limited to clients running IE, but I now know that clients running Netscape or any of its derivatives (Mozilla, Firebird) will have the same problem. I haven't tried Opera yet. The error is client specific, meaning that only certain users are getting the error; for other users, everything works out just fine. And again, this is new behavior. These users were getting to our site just fine. I've received some pretty good suggestions from the other members of this list, so thanks to all! Unfortunately, not much has changed, except that I've got our custom error page spitting out more info. The specific error that I've got now is this: * Parameter 1 of function IsDefined, which is now "session.spanish1202d2ad76445536e6d-AFD6A182-F39D-EBCE-9A2A2E3A0ED188C5", must be a syntactically valid variable name In the actual page (which is Application.cfm), this is what the code looks like: cfif isDefined("session.spanish1#cfid##cftoken#") I don't know what could have happened to all of a sudden make this variable name syntactically invalid. I should point out that we have this same code in dozens of other places, working just fine. The only thing that has changed since when this worked properly for everyone was that our database was modified; the data from our production server was copied down to this server. But as far as I can tell, nothing else in the database has changed. We've tried clearing out the cache and cookies for the affected computers, restart their browser, restarting their computer. We have tried restarting JRun. We have tried clearing out the Java classes for the pages that JRun builds while running. We've even tried rebooting the server. None of these has helped. Any thoughts at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Richard Crawford Systems Administrator UC Davis Distance Learning Group ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
