I've just spent the last 30 minutes experiencing a strange issue with cfdocument. I've figured out the problem, but perhaps somebody here can explain why this happens.
I had a dev server setup that I normally access just by IP address. I have a number of pages that use cfdocument to generate pdf output. I have never had any issues with this, and when moving the finished files up to the production server accessed by domain name everything works fine. For various reasons, I recently added an entry to my host file on my PC so I can access my dev server by a domain name as well. Then I noticed that any images inside my cfdocument code would not appear. I immediately suspected a path issue in the <img> tag, since the web root can be different when the server is accessed via IP vs a domain name. After looking this over, I noticed I was using all relative links and everything should be fine there. To make matters worse, if I simply removed the opening and closing cfdocument tags and just output the HTML, the images where fine. It only occurred when the code was inside a cfdocument tag. I really got confused when I noticed that it was not just with images embedded with the <img> tag, but also with images generated by CF using cfchart. This entire time, any text on the page would output correctly, just no images. However, if I accessed the server by IP again, everything was fine. I eventually wised up and added the same entry to the host file on the dev server as I had on my PC, and the cfdocuments were generating correctly. I was wondering if anyone out there could explain to me why the CF engine needs to performa a dns lookup before returning the results of a cfdocument? Thanks Steve --- --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:241277 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=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
