I had the same problem and the same fix.

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:36:40 +1100, Mark Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've solved this problem for my server - however it may or may not be
> the same problem that others have been suffering.  This has not been
> an intermittent problem as some people described it - but was due to a
> configuration error.
> 
> The resulting error message was the particularly cryptic:
> <snip>
> java.io.IOException: Corrupt form data: no leading boundary:
> (some binary garbage)
>                                               at com.oreilly.servlet.multipart
> .MultipartParser.<init>(MultipartParser.java:171)
> </snip>
> 
> Turns out this was because the file could not be read - because it
> didn't get saved on the server because the temporary directory where
> CF was trying to store the files didn't exist.
> 
> You can check what temporary directory CF is using by using
> <cfoutput>#GetTempDirectory()#</cfoutput>
> 
> It will typically be something like this (on a linux box) :
> [coldfusionmx root]/runtime/servers/default/SERVER-INF/temp/wwwroot-tmp/
> 
> Creating this directory and ensuring that the permissions are set
> correctly for it sorted this out nicely for me.   No wonder you
> haven't been able to replicate it Geoff - you've a team of people
> ensuring everything is configured correctly ;-)
> 
> Hope this helps some people - cheers,
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
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