> It seems to be happening only when using CFINVOKE or within a function
> in a CFC. The cause is simple things like say leaving the closing
> double quotes off the returnvariable attribute value (like this
> returnvariable="MyReturnVar).
>
> This causes a CF error on the screen which doesn't even get caught
> (whole page is wrapped in a CFTRY with a CFCATCH that dumps the error
> to the page) and grinds the server to a halt (we're talkin Windows
> draggin it's arse big time). Whatever is going on it doesn't seem to
> play by the rule set in CF Admin to timeout long running requests after
> 30 seconds!!!
>
> Any ideas? I just can't see why such a simple error would kill the
> server....so far reboots are the only solution.
I'm not sure why this would kill the server either. However, I'm not
surprised that this isn't being caught with CFTRY/CFCATCH, since it's not a
runtime exception, but rather a parsing error. You should be able to catch
it with CFERROR TYPE="REQUEST" or the site-wide error handler, though. On
the other hand, if this is killing the server, it may not respect your error
handlers, either.
Also, I would recommend that, instead of wrapping your entire page within a
CFTRY, you should use the CFERROR TYPE="EXCEPTION" tag. This allows you to
reserve CFTRY for cases where you have a specific problem that you expect,
and a specific solution for that problem.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
fax: 202-797-5444
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