Web App - Phone Calls

2005-03-16 Thread Dwayne Cole
Prospect wants me to build an application that pulls data from a database makes a phone call and leaves a message. Kind of like a voice newsletter. Can we discuss a few alternatives? Approach 1: Can ColdFusion Web Server do all the work with the support of VoiceXML Approach 2: ColdFusion S

Re: CFCs and webroots

2005-03-16 Thread Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC
Not a problem... Think of it this way... an alias is a fakeName for a particular directory that you want to make available. It can't exist without a parent container: a vhost (or the default server.) So from CF's perspective, an alias is no different that any old folder in the various paths availa

Re: CFCs and webroots

2005-03-16 Thread Cliff Meyers
>Since aliases can't exist outside a server config of some sort, an >alias (apache) or a virtual directory (IIS) will look in the webroot >of the site to which it is attached. Thanks for responding! So just to make sure I'm clear on what you mean, going back to my prior example... (vhost) http:

RE: Stock Info

2005-03-16 Thread Jim Davis
We used Reality Online (Reuters quote and information service) for many years and it worked very well. Quotes (many indices with real-time quotes), news stories, historical information suitable for graphing and company profile information. Very complete and generally solid. We no longer use it (

RE: WDDX Status?

2005-03-16 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Calvin Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 15 March 2005 7:30 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: WDDX Status? > > Why are questions about wddx off topic? Well - I think questions about using WDDX in CF would be on topic... but I was asking about WDDX (or

Aftershock Forum BETA Invitation

2005-03-16 Thread Stan Winchester
I would like to invite any interested developers to BETA test our new Aftershock Web Design Forums. You may find out more information at: http://www.aftershockweb.net/forums/threads.cfm/ForumId/9 Thank you, Aftershock Web Design, Inc. by: Stan Winchester President/Developer

Re: Stock Info

2005-03-16 Thread Ben Densmore
Thanks guys, fee based is fine. I figured we would have to pay for the service. Thanks, Ben On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:47:13 -0600, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.xignite.com > > These guys are the kinds of stock data. They have webservices outputing > every possible kind of st

RE: WDDX Status?

2005-03-16 Thread James Holmes
At least CF-OT instead of CF-Community - I can't see how WDDX belongs with muffins etc. -Original Message- From: Calvin Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 15 March 2005 7:30 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: WDDX Status? Why are questions about wddx off topic? It seem like a lot of

Re: Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC
Ummm... ok... Maybe trapping IPs is a better idea than trapping emails. Trapping emails is hard to do if you're not a mail server or something... On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:05:54 -0600, Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any logger should trap inbound emails and verify them ag

Re: Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC
Any logger should trap inbound emails and verify them against a stored list... hence, you've got a built-in differentiator for VIEWS and VISITS (rather along the sitemeter.com paradigm). What's interesting to me is the fact that I had built this, and intended to extend it for out site and for a cli

Re: CFCs and webroots

2005-03-16 Thread Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC
In the case of virtual sites or vhosts, CF will recognize the folder specified in the config as the "webroot" for that "domain." That applies to localhost or LAN-only accessible sites... i.e. I have my server at http://apache1 and it has vhosts for product names... http://sqlsurveyor is a vhost onl

RE: Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Dawson, Michael
>I just don't like running extra processes if I can help it Who is to say that you don't have users hitting the refresh button constantly? M!ke ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking applicat

Re: E-commerce - Make them register or don't make them register

2005-03-16 Thread Eric Dawson
the buzzword I like today - "process centric IT". - Original Message - From: "Bryan Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 23:17 Subject: Re: E-commerce - Make them register or don't make them register > We could debate it all day long...but if it ain

Re: OT: No cache meta tags not working

2005-03-16 Thread Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC
Yeah... back buttons are the hell of the web. Those tags refer to how a browser should handle *new* requests. The browser has to download all the pieces and parts of the page... so they're still "cached" in a certain sense. When you click back, you're looking at the results of that request. Where

Re: Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Jim McAtee
Many of the pages on our sites require up to 30 sql select queries to generate the various bits and pieces, including the queries done by our in-house ad server. We do internal page view logging of data such as date, site section, and page, plus the logging of ad impressions. Most of these wr

Re: Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC
PS - Michael, if you want I can write something up for Fusion Authority... no problem. Let me know the format, what you want, blah blah blah, offlist? Thanks! J On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:23:53 -0600, Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC > > > Yeah, that's true. You could dispatch the request from cron,

Re: Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC
I'd be using asych CFC's on a gateway for all my logging if I had a copy of Enterprise... As it is, I'm using WDDX and the application scope... granted, it's not all that efficient in terms of memory use, but it's not a terribly high-traffic system and at the moment it's got horsepower to spare.

RE: Moving to Lucene

2005-03-16 Thread Ben Forta
Neil, It's doable. You'll have lots less functionality, but it works. There was even a Custom Tag on a DRK a while back that emulated etc. functionality but using Lucene. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2

RE: Images in CFDOCUMENT PDFs

2005-03-16 Thread Dawson, Michael
I found a guy on the MACR Forums that has the same problem with a couple of his servers. We may have tracked the source of the problem to an existing install of 6.1 with, sometimes-failed attempts to uninstall 6.1 before installing CF7. Can we get a "Hell yeah!" from Macromedia on this thang? M!

Re: E-commerce - Make them register or don't make them register

2005-03-16 Thread Eric Dawson
I think the privacy laws are going this direction - if they are not already there. ie no warehousing of customer data unless the customer allows it. and I think it periodically needs to be reviewed (ie annually). so if the customer only wants to provide detailed information fo a specific reason -

Re: E-commerce - Make them register or don't make them register

2005-03-16 Thread Eric Dawson
personal bias - least intrusive data collection. honesty. value. meaning - don't be intrusive - only ask information as you need it - and only if you need it. Create VALUE. in exchange for information. coupons, targetted pricing etc. notifications, personalization. but only in the context of coll

RE: Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Must have missed that in the notes. If I thought of it or knew of it back when we started, I'd have put it into effect first thing. > This was the first use case we thought of, when we thought of the cfml > gateway. I think it's a great use of the gateway. ~~

RE: Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Michael Dinowitz
> > But a crash of CF/Machine will still result in loss of data > > Does that happen often? I can't remember the last time it's happend > to me (at least a couple years). We rarely cycle down CF (maybe 6-8 > times a year), but that's of more concern than random crashes, and > Application.cfc add

Re: Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Adam Haskell
Another fun async I'm working on fleshing out is processing large batch uploads to us. We get, literally, 5 gig zip files, containing 200+ tar files. The idea is as we unzip the main file we send the individual tar files through an async gateway and untar them to a folder which then triggers a file

Re: Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Barney Boisvert
> But a crash of CF/Machine will still result in loss of data Does that happen often? I can't remember the last time it's happend to me (at least a couple years). We rarely cycle down CF (maybe 6-8 times a year), but that's of more concern than random crashes, and Application.cfc addresses the i

RE: Flash Form Errors

2005-03-16 Thread Mike Nimer
In the cfadmin turn on debugging and make sure you check the "show flash compile errors" Also, if you run cf from a dos window instead of as a service. All of these errors will be outputting in the dos window too. --nimer -Original Message- From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Mike Nimer
This was the first use case we thought of, when we thought of the cfml gateway. I think it's a great use of the gateway. ---nimer -Original Message- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Asynchronous logging A thoug

Moving to Lucene

2005-03-16 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
We are a but agrieved at the cost Verity are charging for K2 Server, has anyone had any experience/success with moving from Verity to Lucene? Any help pointers much appreciated. TIA Neil This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Oriel House, 26 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DL, United Kingdo

Not an Isolated Issue (RE: Images in CFDOCUMENT PDFs)

2005-03-16 Thread Dawson, Michael
I found a post on the Macromedia forums where a guy is having the same problem I am. That makes me feel a bit better, but I still want to kick that damn server. M!ke -Original Message- From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:23 PM To: CF-Talk S

RE: CFLdap and verification

2005-03-16 Thread Dawson, Michael
Thanks. It had been a while since I messed with it. It must be something else I can't remember... I'm glad it worked for you. ;^) M!ke -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFLdap and verificat

RE: CFLdap and verification

2005-03-16 Thread Ian Skinner
FYI: passing a blank password seems to be throwing the same error as an incorrect password. -- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!" - Cynthia Dunning -Original Message- From: Dawson, M

RE: CFLdap and verification

2005-03-16 Thread Ian Skinner
Thanks, you suggestion worked just as advertised. That only leaves, exactly what kind of error do I want to trap in my try/catch block when the username/password does not match. -- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA "C code. C code run. Run

RE: CFLdap and verification

2005-03-16 Thread Dawson, Michael
That is an extra step you don't need. Just by specifying the form values in the username and password attributes of the cfldap tag, CF is actually trying to connect to the domain controller using those credentials. Let's say my username is MikeD and my password is Pass1. I would use something li

RE: Stock Info

2005-03-16 Thread Kevin Aebig
http://www.xignite.com These guys are the kinds of stock data. They have webservices outputing every possible kind of stock info you could imagine... but at a fee. Cheers, Kevin -- http://www.keslabs.com Coldfusion Remote Dashboard :: http://www.keslabs.com/crd -Original Message--

RE: CFLdap and verification

2005-03-16 Thread Ian Skinner
Ok, I'll try that, but that's different then I've been using the username and password field of the ldap tag. To date, I've been using an "ldap" user/password provided to me by my network administrator to query the ldap record. What I'm looking for now, it to query the ldap for a "user" by the

RE: CFLdap and verification

2005-03-16 Thread Dawson, Michael
While I'm at it, make sure you have the username specified as either: Or M!ke -Original Message- From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:36 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFLdap and verification Gather the username and password from a form. The

RE: Stock Info

2005-03-16 Thread Matt J. Osbun
Edgar Online has a great XML Stock Info feed. Standard stuff- ticker, chart, histories, etc, updated every 15 minutes. Comes with documentation on using their service to build a stock symbol search and other cool things like that. It's a paid subscription service, though. I don't know how much

RE: CFLdap and verification

2005-03-16 Thread Dawson, Michael
One more thing to point out. You don't have to find the user's dn first as shown in some examples. Active Directory, by default, lets any *authenticated* user query on the directory. M!ke -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:3

RE: CFLdap and verification

2005-03-16 Thread Dawson, Michael
Gather the username and password from a form. Then, use the username and password attributes in the cfldap tag such as: If the username and password are correct, it will return a query object. If they are not correct, it will throw an error. You must also check for a missing password. If you

Stock Info

2005-03-16 Thread Ben Densmore
I'm looking into finding some stock services for our website and curious as to what other people on the list use for displaying stock info as well as stock charts. I checked out one of the web services from xmethods but it doesn't seem like it returns too much info. I found a company called eSigna

CFLdap and verification

2005-03-16 Thread Ian Skinner
Or is it validation? I can never keep those apart. But anyway, how could one use cfldap against an MS active directory for password verification? -- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!" - Cynthia Dun

RE: Server recommendations

2005-03-16 Thread Eric Creese
I take it that is a NO -Original Message- From: Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Server recommendations IIS 6.0 is part of Windows 2003. -Original Message- From: Eric Creese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesda

RE: Images in CFDOCUMENT PDFs

2005-03-16 Thread Dawson, Michael
It works perfectly w/o the cfdocument tags. When I first tried it, I used a .tif file just to see if it would work. It didn't work as I had assumed. I never really tried it with a .gif or .jpg on that server before that test. I wonder if I messed that server up somehow by using a .tif. To test

RE: Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Katz, Dov B \(IT\)
This is what I do for my ad server, to avoid heavy load. All counts for impressions, etc are batched up, and only the one time that incrementing the memory count hits a threshold is the counter committed to database, and reset. It's easy to write a java class which spawns a thread, and make a CFX

RE: Server recommendations

2005-03-16 Thread Jacob
IIS 6.0 is part of Windows 2003. -Original Message- From: Eric Creese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Server recommendations I am running Win2k IIS 5. I really do not want to change OS right now but would like to Upgrade from II

CFCs and webroots

2005-03-16 Thread Cliff Meyers
I was reading the documentation for "Specifying the CFC location" ( http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/buildi45.htm) and wanted to pose a question. If I'm accessing a web site via an "alias" (that's the Apache terminology) such as this: http://www.test.com -> /sites/site1/ htt

RE: CFX - Pass multiple arguments

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Watts
> Do you mean like "My.JAVA.Class")> and if so, is this because of any problems > with CFX performance? Yes, that's how I'd do it. Not because of performance issues, but just that I don't see much value in the CFX API. That's why I've never bothered writing CFXs myself (aside from my complete la

RE: Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Michael Dinowitz
But a crash of CF/Machine will still result in loss of data and the scheduler in CF is based on a CFHTTP call which is basically a double overhead. On the other hand, I totally forgot that gateways are enterprise only. This makes your solution more of an option for those not on enterprise. > Or ju

RE: Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Dawson, Michael
This is a very good idea expanding on Michael's also very good idea. -Original Message- From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Asynchronous logging Or just "log" to a memory structure, and then have a scheduled ta

Re: Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Barney Boisvert
Or just "log" to a memory structure, and then have a scheduled task run every couple minutes to persist the in-memory values to the DB. Now that you have application events, this can be employed in a fail-safe manner, because shutting down the CF server won't result in missed entries. Simpler tha

Re: Images in CFDOCUMENT PDFs

2005-03-16 Thread Larry Lyons
>Damn. I tried flashpaper as the output format, but the image doesn't >work either. I get an empty box with a little red X in the top left >corner. > >What in the world? HELP!!! > >M!ke I'm assuming that you're using CFDocument to convert an html page (either cfml or html based) to PDF. What

RE: Images in CFDOCUMENT PDFs

2005-03-16 Thread Dawson, Michael
I tried this on a different server and it worked. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to get this working on my production server? Both servers were upgraded from CF 6.1. The only difference is the production server didn't completely uninstall CF 6.1. The uninstaller hung and I had to rest

Re: Server recommendations

2005-03-16 Thread Dirk De Bock - Listclient
no - Original Message - From: "Eric Creese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 9:50 PM Subject: RE: Server recommendations >I am running Win2k IIS 5. I really do not want to change OS right now but >would like to Upgrade from IIS5 to IIS6. Is this possib

Asynchronous logging

2005-03-16 Thread Michael Dinowitz
A thought just came to me. Many people use CF for logging and the logging 'takes up' time on a page, slowing it down. Why bother? Most logging is just posting information to a DB and returns nothing to the page. Here's my solution to logging being a bottleneck: Asynchronous logging. When you want

upgrade 6.1 to 7

2005-03-16 Thread Doug James
We are about to embark on upgrading from 6.1 to 7 on our RedHat 2.1 AS server. Please provide any tips, comments, suggestions, gotchas and feedback that people have experienced with upgrading, especially related to linux. Thanks for the help! Doug James Hollings Cancer Center

RE: Images in CFDOCUMENT PDFs

2005-03-16 Thread Dawson, Michael
Damn. I tried flashpaper as the output format, but the image doesn't work either. I get an empty box with a little red X in the top left corner. What in the world? HELP!!! M!ke -Original Message- From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 2:11 PM

RE: Server recommendations

2005-03-16 Thread Eric Creese
I am running Win2k IIS 5. I really do not want to change OS right now but would like to Upgrade from IIS5 to IIS6. Is this possible? -Original Message- From: Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 2:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Server recommendations We just m

RE: CFX - Pass multiple arguments

2005-03-16 Thread Kevin Aebig
Do you mean like and if so, is this because of any problems with CFX performance? Thanks for your help the last couple of days... Cheers, Kevin -- http://www.keslabs.com Coldfusion Remote Dashboard :: http://www.keslabs.com/crd -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMA

RE: Server recommendations

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Watts
> Windows 2003. It's the safest and fastest by far, and IIS 6 > is a great product. The 2003 web server edition is cheap > (sometimes dirt cheap, sometimes even cheaper) but it has a > limit of 2GB memory, which is ok because Java can only use > 1.6 or so. This is all true, but it's worth poin

RE: Server recommendations

2005-03-16 Thread Jacob
We just moved from Website Professional 3.0 to IIS 6.0. IIS 5.0 was horrible, but I can not say enough good things about IIS 6.0. Stable and more secure out of the box... ;-) Went from Windows 2000 Server, WSP 3.0, and CF 5 to Windows 2003, IIS 6.0, and CF MX. Difference like night and day...

RE: No cache meta tags not working

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Watts
> I've got the following meta tags in the header of my doc to > prevent the page from caching, but the page is still being > cached (IE 6 and Firefox > tested): > > HTTP-EQUIV="cache-control" CONTENT="no-cache"> HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="0"> > > I'm logging out the user, but user can

RE: Server recommendations

2005-03-16 Thread Jacob
18 Web servers load balanced running Windows 2003 Server, IIS 6.0 and CF MX 6.1 (going to 7 soon). Servers are Dual Xeon 2 to 3 Ghz with 2 GB RAM. So far, I have been very happy this setup. YMMV... Jacob -Original Message- From: Yves Arsenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Server recommendations

2005-03-16 Thread Nathan Strutz
Yves Arsenault wrote: > Specifically, what windows OS and webserver combinations do you all > use/recommend? Windows 2003. It's the safest and fastest by far, and IIS 6 is a great product. The 2003 web server edition is cheap (sometimes dirt cheap, sometimes even cheaper) but it has a limit of

OT: No cache meta tags not working

2005-03-16 Thread Peterson, Andrew S.
Hi All, I've got the following meta tags in the header of my doc to prevent the page from caching, but the page is still being cached (IE 6 and Firefox tested): I'm logging out the user, but user can click back on a page that requires login and it will not run the logged out logic until

RE: XML Schema vs written spec

2005-03-16 Thread John Stanley
Dave, thanks -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: XML Schema vs written spec > In reading up on XML documentation, it appears that > DTD's are being eclipsed by using Schemas. Yes, that is

RE: CFHTTP Connection Failure

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Watts
> You mention the cookie...there does appear to be one being set.. > extracted from header: > "private Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=bifpcg2ritgn1v45o4y45ovo;" > > I see my response above was a bit off... > I works if I go to the final URL (the one pointed to by the > re-direct) in my browser

RE: CFX - Pass multiple arguments

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Watts
> I'm creating my first (don't laugh) CFX and I'm trying to > pass in any number of arguments to be used in a function call. I won't laugh - I've never created one (and probably never will). > Is it possible to pass an array to a CFX? Within the Java > class, is there any special processing I n

RE: XML Schema vs written spec

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Watts
> In reading up on XML documentation, it appears that > DTD's are being eclipsed by using Schemas. Yes, that is correct, although you may still use DTDs in certain circumstances, such as for describing entities. > What is the real benefit of writing the schema, when I still > will have to

RE: OT:XML Schema vs written spec

2005-03-16 Thread John Stanley
Thanks Rob -Original Message- From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:20 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT:XML Schema vs written spec DTDs will only vaidate the structure of the xml not the values, but schemas will do both the structure and the data types of th

RE: OT:XML Schema vs written spec

2005-03-16 Thread John Stanley
Barney, thanks for the information. I was looking at the issue the wrong way. -Original Message- From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT:XML Schema vs written spec Schemas are for validation. You can check their

Re: OT:XML Schema vs written spec

2005-03-16 Thread Rob
DTDs will only vaidate the structure of the xml not the values, but schemas will do both the structure and the data types of the elements. The other benefit for Schema's are they are written in XML so you can transform them into printable documentation so you kill 2 birds with one scud missile. O

Server recommendations

2005-03-16 Thread Yves Arsenault
Hello, I'm in the process of doing a bit of research before purchasing and setting up a CF 7 server. I've set up 3 servers prior, 2 BD, 1 CFMX 6.1 and they were all Linux based. This is going to be a windows based server. I would like to ask for any recommendations. Specifically, what windows

Images in CFDOCUMENT PDFs

2005-03-16 Thread Dawson, Michael
OK, what am I doing wrong? I am trying to insert a simple image in a PDF created by CFDOCUMENT. The image is in the same directory as the ..cfm page the creates the PDF. I tried SRC="file.gif" and SRC="http://domain.com/file.gif"; formats, but neither worked. I get a gray box with a red questio

Re: OT:XML Schema vs written spec

2005-03-16 Thread Barney Boisvert
Schemas are for validation. You can check their XML when it comes in against the schema, and instantly know if it's valid. It also gives your clients the ability to test their XML on their end during development to ensure that it's valid, without having to be sending test transactions to your ser

OT:XML Schema vs written spec

2005-03-16 Thread John Stanley
All, I'm creating a new xml interface that will allow our clients to connect to our system and update our records. I was researching the ways of documenting the xml structure, for the clients to use. It seems like I have at least three ways to do this. DTD's, Schemas and just writin

CFX - Pass multiple arguments

2005-03-16 Thread Kevin Aebig
Hey all, I'm creating my first (don't laugh) CFX and I'm trying to pass in any number of arguments to be used in a function call. Is it possible to pass an array to a CFX? Within the Java class, is there any special processing I need to do with it? Or am I stuck with just query objects? Thanks f

SOLVED: Re: CFHTTP Connection Failure

2005-03-16 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Well...when in doubt...find an alternative to theshall we say "sensitive" built in CFHTTP tag ;-) I fired up CFX_HTTP5 and voila! everything is just fine (damn handy tag for $30). Well there's half a day of my life I'll never get back. Thanks for the help Dave Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Co

Re: Object composition and calling objects

2005-03-16 Thread Barney Boisvert
Basically just a single registry of all properties and top-level objects in the application. So any object can request a handle to the registry and recall any object or property it needs. In particular, it doesn't provide any sort of assistance to implementing the business logic beyond providing

Re: Object composition and calling objects

2005-03-16 Thread Paul Kenney
Out of curiosity, what is the objective your code aims for? On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:48:12 -0800, Barney Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Take a look at the Tartan framework. It looks really confusing > initially, but it takes care of inter-object relationship problems > with a remarkable deg

Re: Screen resolution custom tag?

2005-03-16 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>that's similar to what the link I posted does, but with an image. Exact, and it is a pretty good idea ;-) -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: CFHTTP Connection Failure

2005-03-16 Thread Bryan Stevenson
I've noticed that the request is made with HTTP/1.0 and the response is made using HTTP/1.1 Could that effect anything? w...it's grasping at straws time :-( Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.

Re: character encoding weirdness

2005-03-16 Thread Dana
Try this http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/messages.cfm/threadid=38668/forumid=4 Dana On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:25:48 -0400, Protoculture <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > French and Spanish characters are doing some strange things. > > The pages appear to be fine ( at first ). But after pressing '

Re: CFHTTP Connection Failure

2005-03-16 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Hey Dave (and anybody else that wants to chime in), I'm not sure I'm testing this correctly...so here's what I'm up to: 1) Go straight to remote URL in my browser (and record request/response) 2) Test my CFM file (which has a CFHTTP request to the remote URL mention above) in my browser What I

Re: JS2CF CF2JS

2005-03-16 Thread Ray Champagne
Javascript variables are not read until they are downloaded by the browser, so I am pretty sure that it is impossible to use js before cf. At 11:52 AM 3/16/2005, you wrote: >I know that javascript can use coldfusion variables, but how can >coldfusion use javascript variables? > >JanetW > >

Re: JS2CF CF2JS

2005-03-16 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Someone just posted this a few days ago...but basically you have JS alter the values of some hidden form fields (document.formname.fieldname.value = 'blah':;)...CF can pickup the values from there.. I'd search the House of Fusion archives as well...this has been discussed many times and thgere

Flash Form Errors

2005-03-16 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
I'm working on a flash form and running into an issue... The page is running fine but the flash form never shows up... it's a code-related thing because it was working until I added a into the form. Is there somewhere that CF puts an error page that I can look at on the server (dev edition, th

JS2CF CF2JS

2005-03-16 Thread Patrick Evans
I know that javascript can use coldfusion variables, but how can coldfusion use javascript variables? JanetW ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/

Re: CFHTTP Connection Failure

2005-03-16 Thread Bryan Stevenson
>> The original URL I was trying did redirectso I tried with >> the URL it redirects to (in browser and in code)...still no love :-( > > Perhaps it's also setting a cookie, in which case you would need to send > that cookie along on the subsequent request. Thanks for the other info...I'll keep

Re: Object composition and calling objects

2005-03-16 Thread Barney Boisvert
Take a look at the Tartan framework. It looks really confusing initially, but it takes care of inter-object relationship problems with a remarkable degree of simplicity once you get your head around it. I've also had great success with taking the configuration management objects (AppLoader, AppMa

RE: CFHTTP Connection Failure

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Watts
> I thought that's what the HTTP recorder does?? ;-) You mentioned that you were seeing requests, but you didn't say you were seeing responses, so I assumed that you weren't for some reason. > Should the recorder by running on my laptop (dev machine) or > on the dev server? I'm having trouible

Re: I still don't 'get' some aspects of CFMX7 flash forms

2005-03-16 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:01:25 -0500, Justin D. Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Flash is, by nature, not an "accessible" medium. If you need your web site > to meet certain accessibility requirements, Flash is probably not for you. That's not entirely true. The Flash components - and in particul

character encoding weirdness

2005-03-16 Thread Protoculture
French and Spanish characters are doing some strange things. The pages appear to be fine ( at first ). But after pressing 'refresh' then all the accents etc... all go funny. This behaviour was the same for both IE and Mozilla.

Re: CFHTTP Connection Failure

2005-03-16 Thread Bryan Stevenson
> You will need to compare the HTTP requests and responses, not just the > requests. I thought that's what the HTTP recorder does?? ;-) Should the recorder by running on my laptop (dev machine) or on the dev server? I'm having trouible thinking this through today as cement walls are being sawe

RE: Football tipping competition?

2005-03-16 Thread Adrian Lynch
Yup, I worked on worldcupfantasyfooty.com and premiershipfantasyfooty.com. Both now dead although I might be working on one for the next season. With the former you could predict who would score as well as the results. Made easier because it was for the worldcup and the player list is more or less

RE: CFHTTP Connection Failure

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Watts
> Hey Davewhat do you use for your proxy recordingI've > been poking around and...wellthere are a few too many > options for me to choose from ;-) Check out Charles: http://www.xk72.com/charles/ Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides t

RE: CFHTTP Connection Failure

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Watts
> Dave I decided to go with PureTest from the folks at > PureLoadI installed it on my laptop and setup my browser > to use the HTTP recorder as the proxy. > Then I tied running my CFM file (which resides on our office > dev server) with the CFHTTP request in it to the remote page. > I'm g

RE: Screen resolution custom tag?

2005-03-16 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Drew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:39 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Screen resolution custom tag? > > This is where an AJAX type application might work wonders. As soon as > you load the page, do a XMLHttpRequest and send

RE: I still don't 'get' some aspects of CFMX7 flash forms

2005-03-16 Thread Justin D. Scott
> I dont like the fact that the controls dont meet > the basics of accessibility. Flash is, by nature, not an "accessible" medium. If you need your web site to meet certain accessibility requirements, Flash is probably not for you. Sure, Flash is cool and makes our lives as developers easier, but

Re: CFHTTP Connection Failure

2005-03-16 Thread Bryan Stevenson
> It strikes me as odd that you'd get a connection failure message even > though > the server sent you a response, as indicated by the header. Have you tried > using a recording proxy, or testing this from your server console using > wget > or a browser? Dave I decided to go with PureTest from t

Re: Football tipping competition?

2005-03-16 Thread Larry Lyons
>The basics involve everyone in the tipping competition putting in their >choices for who will win games in a week, every week - then at the end of >the season the person who guessed the most correct wins. > >-Original Message- >From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, 1

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