Re: Strange Errors in logs: Suspected Web Crawler

2008-03-17 Thread James Buckingham
As I didn't get a reply to this one so I thought I'd add a bit more information. These errors seem to follow another which is worryingly similar to this: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect The specific sequence of files included or processed is:

Re: CFDiv not binding properly?

2008-03-17 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Mike Harman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the pop-up window a cfwindow or a new browser window? It's a new browser window. The curious thing is that it works on my devel machine but when I pushed the code to a staging environment it does not. Thanks! Hatton

Re: SQL Injection

2008-03-17 Thread Ian Skinner
Mark Kruger wrote: Ian, I posted an example of this recently on my blog. http://www.coldfusionmuse.com/index.cfm/2008/2/22/sql-injection-on-a-charact er-field The long and short is that different platforms allow you to escape single quotes differently and this technique can be used to get

RE: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-17 Thread Russ
-Original Message- From: Gerald Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:24 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: DB choice for small Intranet site I have no problem with MSSQL. You should note the Express management console does not support import and export which

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-17 Thread J.J. Merrick
No-Blanket-statement rules suggest that Microsoft is exempt since it has been found that in 90% of cases (my own survey) that it is true therefore earning a go card for all blanket statements against it. :-) -J.J. On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Dominic Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As

Re: CFDiv not binding properly?

2008-03-17 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
script type=javascript window.opener.ColdFusion.navigate('showfiles.cfm?user=#form.userid#, 'File'); window.close(); /script Just to update this, I took out the window.close(); code and it works on the staging environment. o_O Hatton

Re: Extra Level of Security Information

2008-03-17 Thread Jeff Price
Do not make it too easy. Bad things happen if you rely on security through obscurity...just take a look at what happened to a local station where I live. My Favorite - All your base closing. http://brentroad.com/photos/00234900.jpg This link is not necessarily safe for work (contains offensive

OT: SEO company recommendations ?

2008-03-17 Thread Ryan Stille
I'm looking for a good search engine optimization company to recommend to a client. If you've had a good experience with one, please point me to them. Thanks, -Ryan ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important

Re: Totally OT: Do you see what I see

2008-03-17 Thread Claude Schneegans
do you see a clear 'flaw'? Sure! -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks.

RE: SEO company recommendations ?

2008-03-17 Thread Dave Watts
I'm looking for a good search engine optimization company to recommend to a client. If you've had a good experience with one, please point me to them. We do SEO work. Contact me offlist if you're interested. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Training:

RE: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-17 Thread William Seiter
I am not certain the two of you are talking about the same beast. SQL Server Express is a full database system, I think. I 'believe' Gerald may have been talking about the SQL Server Management Studio Express program. If anyone knows a way to import/export using a tool like SQL Server

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-17 Thread Dominic Watson
If anyone knows a way to import/export using a tool like SQL Server Management Studio Express, or any tool that would connect to a Virtual Hosted MSSQL database, could you let me know? I see this project coming in the near future and my previous research indicates no 'good' way to do it.

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-17 Thread Dominic Watson
You may have to jump a few hoops to get the DTS 'plugin' to work but maybe not... I should clarify; there is no issue with it working, you just may need to add it to the 'external tools' list in Management Studio Express to access it from within the studio; google should help with that. It's

Weired Error

2008-03-17 Thread Don L
Hi, My cf8-based app runs fine with me and most beta users (the app uses multiple cfwindows for one page), however, one important beta user often encounters errors like Error retrieving markup for element {xyzwindow_body}: Access Forbidden and he reported that it's consistent. It bothers me.

RE: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-17 Thread Russ
That is exactly what my blog post was about. Russ -Original Message- From: Dominic Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 11:46 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: DB choice for small Intranet site You may have to jump a few hoops to get the DTS 'plugin' to

%1 is not a valid Win32 application

2008-03-17 Thread Colman, Richard
Just attempted to install CF8 on a 64-bit Windows 2003 server. It is my understanding that you can run the 32-bit version on a such a machine. What is the workaround for this, please? Rick Colman ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8

Some Flash form text fields displaying white text using Vista

2008-03-17 Thread John P
Hi All, I discovered something strange with flash cfform this morning. Some of the text fields which are populated by the database are displaying the text in white while others in black, the white text is invisible on the white background. This issue appears to be related to MS Vista as I

RE: %1 is not a valid Win32 application

2008-03-17 Thread Colman, Richard
Fixed. Enable32bitapponwin64 1 Will do it. Sorry to bother the list. -Original Message- From: Colman, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:04 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: %1 is not a valid Win32 application Just attempted to install CF8 on a 64-bit Windows

RE: Some Flash form text fields displaying white text using Vista

2008-03-17 Thread Will Swain
Have you tried using css to force the colour of the text? Might be a workaround. will ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial

binary data would be truncated

2008-03-17 Thread John P
I'm having a problem with a form which is giving the following error on insert of text fields which contain a paragraph or two of data. Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]String or binary data would be truncated. This error would seem to

RE: binary data would be truncated

2008-03-17 Thread cfhelp
Nvarchar only allows 255 characters. NText is the field you want if its paragraphs you are storing. Rick Eidson The KChost Radio Network http://www.kchost.net/ Eidson Empire http://www.eidsonsempire.com/ -Original Message- From: John P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 17, 2008

RE: binary data would be truncated

2008-03-17 Thread Adrian Lynch
On SQL Server NVARCHAR can be up to 4000. Just do a Len() in the data to see if it is as long as you think it is. Adrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 March 2008 18:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: binary data would be truncated Nvarchar only allows 255 characters.

Re: binary data would be truncated

2008-03-17 Thread John P
Thanks for your help guys. John On SQL Server NVARCHAR can be up to 4000. Just do a Len() in the data to see if it is as long as you think it is. Adrian Nvarchar only allows 255 characters. NText is the field you want if its paragraphs you are storing. Rick Eidson The KChost Radio

Re: Some Flash form text fields displaying white text using Vista

2008-03-17 Thread John P
Is it possible to change the text color via the cfform style attribute? Have you tried using css to force the colour of the text? Might be a workaround. will ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and

Back button and Ajax

2008-03-17 Thread Claude Schneegans
Hi, Ajax is a nice feature, for instance when only some part of a page must be changed, one can populate some internal DIV instead of reloading the entire page. But the problem is when the visitor hits the back button: he then doesn't get back to the previous sub page, but to the page he

Re: Back button and Ajax

2008-03-17 Thread Josh Nathanson
I know there is a jQuery plugin called History that handles this. Here's the link: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/history Even if you don't currently use jQuery, it might be worth it to use it just for this plugin rather than reinventing the wheel. -- Josh - Original Message -

RE: Back button and Ajax

2008-03-17 Thread Andy Matthews
jQuery has a history plugin that makes managing state for AJAX calls a snap. http://plugins.jquery.com/project/history andy -Original Message- From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 1:45 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Back button and Ajax Hi, Ajax

Re: Back button and Ajax

2008-03-17 Thread Sonny Savage
The YUI package has a browser history manager which does exactly that: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/history/ On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Ajax is a nice feature, for instance when only some part of a page must be changed, one can

CF 7 memory usage spike during scheduled task?

2008-03-17 Thread James Skemp
Greetings all, We're currently running 7.0.2 on Windows, with FusionReactor 3. We're running into an issue with one of our scheduled tasks; it starts up around 3 in the morning, and runs for about 15 minutes, doing various syncs and updates. (We're running a pretty closed-source CMS that

Re: Back button and Ajax

2008-03-17 Thread Adam Haskell
Note that the version of YUI packaged with CF8 is not the most current version so if you use the packaged YUI component the browser history API may not match exactly. I think CF8's YUI is 2 versions behind now. That being said i still recommend YUI's browser history implementation it is fairly

Re: CF 7 memory usage spike during scheduled task?

2008-03-17 Thread Jochem van Dieten
James Skemp wrote: We're currently running 7.0.2 on Windows, with FusionReactor 3. We're running into an issue with one of our scheduled tasks; it starts up around 3 in the morning, and runs for about 15 minutes, doing various syncs and updates. (We're running a pretty closed-source CMS

Re: CF 7 memory usage spike during scheduled task?

2008-03-17 Thread Ian Skinner
Are these Windows servers? If so, does the CF7 server run under a user other then the default 'localsystem'. If so, does the CF8 server run under the same user? That's the first thing I always look at when something works for a user directly in a browser but not when CF requests the

CF 8 Instance Clustering: for performance? or failover?

2008-03-17 Thread Steven Wood
With multi-server CF8 you can duplicate an instance and then link them together as a cluster on the same machine. Does this improve performance in any way? Or is it purely for failover should 1 of the instances halt in any way? And with the failover circumstance, how are you notified if one

first time mySQL - couple of quick questions

2008-03-17 Thread Mike Little
hi guys, my client does not wish to pay for utilising an SQL Server db. access will not suffice for the applications they are requesting eg. concurrent usage and security. mySQL. my webhost offers this connection with their basic plans. 1. is mySQL free to use? 2. how different is it from SQL

Re: first time mySQL - couple of quick questions

2008-03-17 Thread Gerald Guido
Mike, A lot of this was covered last week on this thread. http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:55566 It should answer youer questions and then some. G On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Mike Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi guys, my client does not wish to pay

Re: CF 8 Instance Clustering: for performance? or failover?

2008-03-17 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Steven Wood wrote: With multi-server CF8 you can duplicate an instance and then link them together as a cluster on the same machine. Does this improve performance in any way? It shouldn't. (Unless the limiting factor is Java heap space and you get better performance from being able to

Re: first time mySQL - couple of quick questions

2008-03-17 Thread Sonny Savage
MySQL has varied licensing, and their web site has all the details. The short of it is this: 1) You can use it for development for free, and 2) the host should be paying for server licensing (if any). MySQL isn't that much different than SQL server. There should be a resource that compares the

RE: Some Flash form text fields displaying white text using Vista

2008-03-17 Thread Will Swain
I've never tried but I imagine it might - why not give it a go and see! w -Original Message- From: John P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 March 2008 19:24 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Some Flash form text fields displaying white text using Vista Is it possible to change the text color

Re: CF 7 memory usage spike during scheduled task?

2008-03-17 Thread James Skemp
Actually Jochem, we do have debugging on for local requests. We had the same settings on 6.1, but, it's worth a try. I've disabled this, and will give it a try tonight. @Ian: Good suggestion. However, it's using the default Local System account. It runs, it just chews through memory towards

RE: CF 8 Instance Clustering: for performance? or failover?

2008-03-17 Thread Russ
It definitely improves things for us. Not only does it give you an extra instance in case something goes wrong with the original one, it allows you to utilize 2GB of ram instead of 1GB. You can use FusionReactor to notify you when an instance is failing. Russ -Original Message-

UDF function inside cffunction?

2008-03-17 Thread Leitch, Oblio
It seems you cannot define a cfscript-based udf inside a cffunction. Can anyone confirm/deny? Has anyone encountered this? If you *can*, how? Needs to be cast as a particular Java type? And, if not, why not? Is this convention? TIA This email message may contain privileged and/or

Re: UDF function inside cffunction?

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Mandel
Stupid question, but... why would you want to? Mark On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Leitch, Oblio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems you cannot define a cfscript-based udf inside a cffunction. Can anyone confirm/deny? Has anyone encountered this? If you *can*, how? Needs to be cast as a

Problems Bringing Up New CF8 Server

2008-03-17 Thread Colman, Richard
We are trying to bring up a new Windows 2003 64-bit server, running both ColdFusion 8 and .NET Runtime 2.0 We are having multiple problems, and not much of anything is running, and I am beginning to wonder whether there is a problem with 32-bit CF8 and 64-bit .NET trying to run on IIS 6 at the

RE: UDF function inside cffunction?

2008-03-17 Thread Andrew Scott
You have got to be kidding me right? UDF, are cffunctions. And you can't nest cffunctions. Maybe the classic RTFM might help here. Andrew Scott Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613  9015 8628 Mobile: 0404 998 273 -Original Message- From:

Re: UDF function inside cffunction?

2008-03-17 Thread Mike Chabot
I would assume that you cannot do this. I don't know too many programming languages outside of JavaScript where this is allowed. Hopefully it is easy enough to add a second cffunction tag outside of the existing cffunction tag. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Leitch, Oblio [EMAIL

Virtual Server: Problems Bringing Up New CF8 Server

2008-03-17 Thread Colman, Richard
So, because of the problems noted below, thinking about the following: Running a 32-bit virtual server on the 64-bit chassis, and installing CF8 in the virtual server. Has anyone tried this? -Original Message- From: Colman, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17,

Re: Virtual Server: Problems Bringing Up New CF8 Server

2008-03-17 Thread Mike Chabot
I've done that. Works great. Using a 64-bit host OS lets you add lots of RAM, which lets you run a bunch of VMs on the same hardware. CF should be plenty fast within a VM. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Colman, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, because of the problems noted

Re: UDF function inside cffunction?

2008-03-17 Thread Dominic Watson
Javascript allows you to 'nest' functions in as much as you can create a method for an object on the fly: function somefunction(){ var someObject = new myObject(); someObject.someOtherFunction = function(){alert(I've just been created!);} } I would not say this was a nested function though

Re: Extra Level of Security Information

2008-03-17 Thread Mike Chabot
There are numerous ways to secure a server. I'm having trouble envisioning what support for a hardware token would add. Is this related to preventing people from logging into a Web site unless a device is plugged into the computer, or is this somehow related to the process that delivers the raw

RE: UDF function inside cffunction?

2008-03-17 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Dominic Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 7:46 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: UDF function inside cffunction? Javascript allows you to 'nest' functions in as much as you can create a method for an object on the fly: function

Re: Weired Error

2008-03-17 Thread Don L
Hi, My cf8-based app runs fine with me and most beta users (the app uses multiple cfwindows for one page), however, one important beta user often encounters errors like Error retrieving markup for element {xyzwindow_body}: Access Forbidden and he reported that it's consistent. It

Re: UDF function inside cffunction?

2008-03-17 Thread Dominic Watson
While that's not a nested function (again, you're just assigning a function as data), you can definitely build them in JavaScript: You learn something new every day ;). Thats interesting that functions that are 'scoped' to variables are treated as 'data' and not referred to in object terms,

RE: CF 8 Instance Clustering: for performance? or failover?

2008-03-17 Thread Dave Watts
It definitely improves things for us. Not only does it give you an extra instance in case something goes wrong with the original one, it allows you to utilize 2GB of ram instead of 1GB. That doesn't improve performance, just reliability. And if you cluster two instances, you're storing the

Re: Bluedragon = open source

2008-03-17 Thread Adam Haskell
I know my entry is not for Railo but the directions I have posted could easily be used to get Railo running on Jboss. I hope this helps introduce a few people to Jboss Eclipse and their choice of CFML engines. http://cfrant.blogspot.com/2008/03/jboss-eclipse-and-bluedragon.html Adam Haskell

Re: CF 8 Instance Clustering: for performance? or failover?

2008-03-17 Thread Adam Haskell
That all depends on how you configure the cluster. As long as replication is not on then no you would not be storing the same data, so you could get more out of your memory, at that point failover would only keep folks online the session would be lost (though I suppose you might be able to use

Re: CF 8 Instance Clustering: for performance? or failover?

2008-03-17 Thread James Holmes
Sort of. Sessions certainly take up the same room in both if you're using session replication and you'd expect that over time the same set of classes are going to be created and take up perm space. But since the threads are spread between each instance there's (approximately) half the stack space

RE: CF 8 Instance Clustering: for performance? or failover?

2008-03-17 Thread Russ
-Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 8:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF 8 Instance Clustering: for performance? or failover? It definitely improves things for us. Not only does it give you an extra instance in case

Re: Bluedragon = open source

2008-03-17 Thread Gerald Guido
Thanx Adam. Jboss is a bit daunting at first. I am so used to Tomcat. Everything seems to be popping up BD these days. We are all very excited about this at our shop. We have using MM/Adobe CF for years and are taking a *very* serious look at BD. We really want to move towards a Java platform.

Re: Weired Error

2008-03-17 Thread James Holmes
Yes, the facists are conspiring to prevent your cfwindow from working because it's a risk to national security. This will help: http://zapatopi.net/afdb/ On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Don L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My cf8-based app runs fine with me and most beta users (the app

Re: Weired Error

2008-03-17 Thread Don L
Did you read that the app works perfectly FINE with all other users CONSISTENTLY save some tiny harmless js error from js libraries like Ext but that particular user's organization, and that organization is important to me, the 'design' is put to me continuously in disadvantageous situation,

Re: Weired Error

2008-03-17 Thread Scott Stewart
Hi, My cf8-based app runs fine with me and most beta users (the app uses multiple cfwindows for one page), however, one important beta user often encounters errors like Error retrieving markup for element {xyzwindow_body}: Access Forbidden and he reported that it's consistent. It

Re: Weired Error

2008-03-17 Thread Don L
Hi Don, Do you have a url that you can post? Let some of us test it and see what happens. Usually an Access Denied is a 403.1 error and that would lead directly to your server configuration. But. a lot of organizations are using blocking software, to keep their employees off of