Well put. I believe I may just stop including any details at all in my error emails after reading that but instead, as you described, just send an email that says basically, 'youve got errors at mysite.com'. And then just build a reusable error interface component for my sites.
It would... A) keep me from building the elaborate outlook folder structure to hold any error emails that might be triggered by the error handlers of my sites B) Keep the errors located at their origin and easily found C) Give the resources for a better error ticket reporting method and track history of the application. Thanks for that input. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -----Original Message----- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 12:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Using try/catch all over the place a good thing? Another consequence of emailing errors, if you are sending diagnostic info with the error (and you should be), you could be emailing passwords, credit card numbers etc. etc. that are passed in the form scope. Consider that when developing your error handling. I like to store them in a db, with a fallback to a write to disk. I only email myself a 'you've got errors' email, if I send the email at all as opposed to checking the log (I use a server monitor to find things like dead db's killing the site). Hand in hand with that is a cfscheduled task that deletes all errors older than X days. Also, consider using a site wide error handler AND a cferror tag AND, on a granular level, cftry/cfcatch. Use cftry/cfcatch to protect individual blocks of code where you want a specific error handled a specific way (like a mime type failure on an upload). Use cferror as your application's general error handler and use a sitewide handler to bat cleanup in case something goes wrong with Plans A and B. -- --mattRobertson-- Janitor, MSB Web Systems mysecretbase.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:221523 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
