> Can you explain this in greater detail? As you know, requests come through IIS. For a simple page such as whatever.htm, it looks on the hard drive for whatever.htm, and if it's found, it is read and sent to the visitor. If it's not found, IIS goes to the error control settings to see what it should do in the case of a 404 and displays its 404 error, redirect, or whatever it's set to do.
In the case of anything with an extension handler or ISAPI filter (such as ColdFusion), by default IIS just passes the request to the filter and waits for a response. In this case, the response it gets is output from ColdFusion as an error saying the file doesn't exist, and that gets passed back to the visitor. In the ISAPI and extension handler settings in IIS, there is an option called "verify that file exists" which can be turned on. When enabled, IIS will go check the hard drive for the file just like it does for "unhandled" file types such as basic HTML. If the file exists, it will hand the request over to the filter normally. If it doesn't exist, it will ignore the filter and go straight to the 404 error settings and handle it internally, so ColdFusion never sees the request. Essentially it allows missing .cfm requests to be handled the same as any other missing file. You need access to the IIS settings console or the metabase to make this change. The only downside is that IIS will start looking on the hard drive for the file upon each request, and will increase disk I/O, though the difference is negligible. In the IIS GUI, the setting is under the site properties, Home Directory tab, either of the edit buttons, then "verify that file exists." -Justin Scott, http://www.tlson.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:313137 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
