Charlie: For whatever reason, my eye missed the first link to the UDF and I clicked the cf411.com link. Going back and looking at it now.
__________________ Derrick Peavy [email protected] 404-786-5036 “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs "In economics, the majority is always wrong." - John Kenneth Galbraith _____________________ On Aug 24, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Charlie Arehart wrote: > You don’t really mean the code looks like that (where the #searchterm# is > repeated), do you? Because that doesn’t seem to make sense. Maybe it was > pseudo code and you left something out. > > But I will say this: I wrote a UDF (posted at cflib and since tweaked by > others) that may help you: > http://www.cflib.org/index.cfm?event=page.udfbyid&udfid=1908 It’s not long > or complicated, but it solves what was for me a problem very similar to > yours, and it surprised me (as it may you) that CFML didn’t make it easier. > Check it out. If nothing else, it may give you an idea to consider in a > variation for your own need. > > All that said, I will note as well that there are other solutions out there > for the common problem of handling spiders and bots. Besides the link that > Ajas offered, consider also my tools of that sort at > http://www.cf411.com/injectprotect. While those focus on sql injection > protection (at various levels up/down the stack from CFML to hardware), some > of them also offer protection for spiders. > > /charlie > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Derrick Peavy > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 5:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ACFUG Discuss] Best way to handle chunk of CFIF statements > > Looking for a clever solution to this problem. > > I have some code on a site that checks for known spiders/bots and malicious > user agents. The list of "known" is baout 50 or so long. > > One solution could be: > > (findNoCase('#searchTerm#', cgi.http_user_agent)) OR > (findNoCase('#searchTerm#', cgi.http_user_agent)) OR > (findNoCase('#searchTerm#', cgi.http_user_agent)) OR ... etc and so > on, 50 times. > > Another solution could be: > <cfif findNoCase('#searchTerm#', cgi.http_user_agent)>do > something</cfif> and repeat that complete CFIF 50 times. > > What is a creative way to solve this without so many IF's and minimal > processing? > > Alos, the list of user agents can be either file based or pulled from a DB. > I've done it both ways and I have used both solutions above. Don't see a > difference, but it just seems rather crude. > > __________________ > Derrick Peavy > [email protected] > 404-786-5036 > > “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs > "In economics, the majority is always wrong." - John Kenneth Galbraith > _____________________ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > List hosted by FusionLink > -------------------------------------------------------------
