I am using cFusion_encrypt cFusion_decrypt, as well as some of the
undocumented ODFC functions.
Tim Heald
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 7:32 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Encryption differences in ColdFusion 4.5 and 5.0?
At 04:12 PM 08/27/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Uh... you're right, it doesn't help. I don't like to think of myself as a
>ColdFusion programmer (I think the language itself it pretty weak) and I
>didn't write the code, but I'm forced to clean up the mess of a co-worker.
>I'm not surprised that it's an obfuscated function, though, to be honest...
>there have been similar problems in the past.
>
>As a side, however, why are there even "unofficial" functions included in
>the standard distribution of ColdFusion?
It's a common thing. There are tons of undocumented functions as part
of the Windows API, aren't there?
They do this so that they (in this case the 'they' is Allaire
/Macromedia ) do not have to document or support these functions, yet can
still use their functionality.
>If you don't want people to use
>it, or you want to make it obvious that it's not a function that's to be
>used, as you say is the case, why have it implemented in the first place?
As I said before, it's very common.
Like that finance system I built last week has a function I entitled
"IsJeffInPayroll"
It goes something like this:
If IsJeffInPayroll is false
System = crash
:ha, ha: ( I'm kidding )
To answer Ray's (I think it was Ray) question I occasionally use an
undocumented function to disable / flush ODBC datasources, but that is the
only one I ever use.
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