>>Now if you are 100% confident that your PDF is being delivered by the cfcontent tag, then it sounds like you may have come across a bug.
No, the pdf is not delivered in case of an error, since it is a compile error, no code is executed. For years I've been using this trick, and no file even contained any occurrence of the string "<CF". Note that any file containing anything except "<CF" will pass through the CF compiler with no problem. It was the case for years. And it is not a bug in CF if this is what you mean, is is just the way it works. As I said, it could have been 1. compile application.cfm 2. execute application.cfm... and eventually abort here. 3. compile the requested template 4. execute it It is rather 1. compile application.cfm AND the requested template 2. execute application.cfm... and eventually abort here. 4. execute the requested template There may be a good reason I don't know to do things in that order, but it is certaily not pure logic. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:345577 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm