First glance, you're lock timeouts might be competing with the
'development' time for the pdf's: that it happens imediatiately -
trace out your session vars.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Peyton Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks, Dean, I'll look into Paros and Charles (believe it or not, both were
> the first thing that popped up in a google search).
>
> And thanks, Howard. In addition to things to mentioned that I might try,
> your suggestions alerted me to the fact that what I described are really two
> separate problems. It would be nice to solve the application.cfm problem in
> any case, since it's disconcerting to find the login screen appearing in the
> child browser window even when it's replaced by the report. Do you see
> anything wrong with my application.cfm which could be causing the login
> screen to load into the child window?
>
> Also, when that's solved, the symptoms of the other error should be
> different, and perhaps more informative...
>
> Peyton
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Fore
> Sent: Jun 23, 2008 10:51 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Problem on Only One PC
>
> Peyton, here's a few questions to think about.
> - Have you tried hitting the URL for the generated PDF in the web browser to
> see if you get an error or something?
> - Does this happen in just one browser or all (Firefox, IE, etc.)?
> - If you can see this happen in Firefox, try turning on the error console
> (Tools > Error Console) to see if something shows up there.
> - Does he have a popup blocker installed that the other computers don't?
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Peyton Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> This could be a tough one to solve. But maybe not. My website has three
>> reports, all three accomplished by loading a PDF into a child browser
>> window. The report process works fine on every computer it has been tested
>> on except one (wouldn't you know it): the boss's computer. On his computer,
>> the child window opens, but then, instead of the report displaying in it,
>> the child window suddenly closes, and the user is taken back to the login
>> screen.
>>
>> (In one of the three reports, the PDF will already exist, while in the
>> other two it gets built dynamically; however this seems not to matter since
>> the same error happens for all three reports.)
>>
>> The javascript for one of the latter two reports is:
>>
>> function Print(jn){
>>   url = 'printJob.cfm?jn=' + jn;
>>   win=window.open(url,'Print','width=800,height=500,resizable=yes');
>>   win.focus();
>>   win.moveTo(80,80);
>>   }
>>
>>
>> And printJob.cfm looks like this:
>>
>> <cfset filename = UCase(Session.username) & ".PDF">
>> <cfdocument format="PDF" filename="#filename#" overwrite="yes">
>>
>> -- a lot of ColdFusion tags and HTML goes here --
>>
>> </cfdocument>
>>
>> <cflocation url="#filename#">
>>
>>
>> Here's a clue: The behavior is probably somehow related to
>> application.cfm. I have recently noticed a strange behavior which wasn't
>> happening in earlier versions: when the child browser window opens, and
>> while printJob.cfm is still building the #filename#, the login window opens
>> inside the child browser window, but then as soon as #filename# gets built,
>> it appears in the child browser window just as it should, supplanting the
>> login window which had appeared there.
>>
>> application.cfm looks like this:
>>
>> <cfapplication name="Reporters" sessionmanagement="Yes"
>>   setclientcookies="Yes" sessiontimeout="#CreateTimeSpan(0,0,45,15)#"
>>        applicationtimeout="#CreateTimeSpan(0,0,1,0)#">
>>
>> <cflock scope='Session' type='Exclusive' timeout='30'>
>>  <cfparam name='Session.LoggedIn' Default='False'>
>> </cflock>
>>
>> <!-- If the user isn't logged in and they aren't currently on the login
>> page, send them to the login page -->
>> <cflock scope='Session' type='Readonly' timeout="30">
>> <cfif not Session.LoggedIn>
>>  <cfif cgi.script_name is not '/Reporters/ReporterLogin.cfm'>
>>          <cflocation url='/Reporters/ReporterLogin.cfm'>
>>        </cfif>
>> </cfif>
>> </cflock>
>>
>> However, there is no way users can get to the button(s) which run reports
>> unless they are logged in. And the process of building the reports never
>> takes as long as 30 seconds. Even if it did, that all happens on the server,
>> and should have nothing to do which which client computer the report is run
>> from.
>>
>> What could be wrong here?
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Peyton
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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