If you're interested in the underworkings of FarCry with regards to how it 
converts objectIds to FU names, take a look at core/packages/types/farFU.cfc.  
All the methods are in there.  ie. If you have an objectId and want to get the 
FU name, you might want to try getFU().

Regards,

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Jeff Coughlin

On May 10, 2012, at 9:29 AM, funand learning wrote:

> Ok I am able to understand this slowly. So furl is set by the web server. Can 
> you tell me if the following steps are right?
> 
> 1) User requests a URL like 
> www.example.com?objectid=29187398kajsdkjshakdhaksjhd
> 
> 2) This URL is converted toFURL by webserver during onrequeststart method of 
> coldfusion (am I right?)
> 
> 3) When webserver tries to convert, how does it know which table to query? 
> Suppose in my case, for the above example URL, the fURL looks like 
> www.example.com/abc-hello-world. SO the for above url variable objectid, 
> "abc-hello-world" is retreived from the database to append to the URL. When 
> and how is this done by web server?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Justin Carter <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> The furl variable in the URL is usually created by the rewrite rules on the 
> web server before the request is sent through to ColdFusion, so you'll need 
> to look in the appropriate place depending on which web server you are using. 
> Commonly it will be mod_rewrite rules in your vhost configuration in Apache, 
> or IIRF / IIS Rewrite for IIS.
> 
> If the friendly URL rewrite rules are already set up correctly for your web 
> server then you will typically not need to change them :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Justin
> 
> On May 10, 2012 10:48 PM, "funand learning" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am sorry, I wanted to know when is the variable FURL created? Which 
> function of coldfusion code takes the objectid from the URL and converts into 
> FURL?
> 
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:45 AM, funand learning <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Thanks for responding Blair. Yes thats what I meant. Can you tell me if the 
> following part of the code does that?
> 
> <cfif structKeyExists(url, "returnURL")>
>        <cfset session.loginReturnURL = application.fapi.fixURL(url.returnURL) 
> />
> </cfif>
> 
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Blair McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do you mean the point where the user is redirected from that URL to the 
> friendly one? The FU handling is done in onRequestStart in core's 
> application.cfc. If the user is using a non-friendly url at that point, and 
> the application supports friendly urls, FarCry will redirect the user.
> 
> Blair
> 
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:47 PM, funandlearning <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Hi All -
> 
> I am new to farcry and looking at some existing code. I have a
> question on friendly URL. At what time of the application do the
> actual URL gets parsed to friendly URL.
> 
> Suppose I have a href link as
> 
> <a href="www.example.com?objectid=123askjhdakjshdkasjhd">Go to new
> page</a>
> 
> When I click the above link, the new page URL is a friendly URL. I
> checked in onApplicationStart, but the URL is constructed even before
> that. Can you let me know at what time is the URL parsed, and which
> function does it? Is it fixURL function in utils.cfc?
> 
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