RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Adobe Breakfast

2018-02-27 Thread Charlie Arehart
A couple of thoughts. 1) yep, great to see the list reviving a bit, and to hear from folks again. :-) 2) About the Adobe breakfast, and “knowing about it”, I’ll just share that it was also posted on the Adobe CF Community portal, which is a hybrid blog and gateway to the CF forums. The posting

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] strange behavior with cftoken/cfid with CF9

2018-02-24 Thread Charlie Arehart
Thanks for stepping in, John, and for handling things going forward. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of John Mason Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 11:08 AM To: discussion@acfug.org; l...@lgriffin.net Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] strange behavior with

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CFBuilder

2018-02-23 Thread Charlie Arehart
Yep, and for any wanting to know about still other editors, including those that DO support CFML (or not), and links to such CFML plugins or extensions where needed, see the category of my CF411.com site: http://www.cf411.com/editors And for those wanting to learn more about hidden gems in

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] strange behavior with cftoken/cfid with CF9

2018-02-23 Thread Charlie Arehart
Wow, I don’t know if there’s anyone with that ability. There was for a time, but then the group moved to a new system. Then it went quiet for a few years. Now that it’s reviving again, surely some like Les will say “I don’t care to be here anymore”. I’m just not sure who has control anymore to

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] strange behavior with cftoken/cfid with CF9

2018-02-22 Thread Charlie Arehart
Jeff has posted this question also in the Adobe forums. Folks may want to see my reply there (just written), if not also reply there. https://forums.adobe.com/message/10198418#10198418 (Cross-posting is always risky, Jeff. Some will see one but not the other. And only you, or others watching

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Hopefully this list still exists

2016-08-31 Thread Charlie Arehart
Dude, they’re getting the band back together! :-) So Frank, on your observation, can you offer a simple 2-3 line proofcase? I realize you gave us code, but not with the values you’re really using for the vars. Sometimes, when you create such an example, you find out that it’s not what you

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] has anyone had issues with Chrome lately?

2015-04-12 Thread Charlie Arehart
Jeff, do you mean the default/home page of some acfug site, or are you asking if people are having such a problem with other/all sites? I’ll say that I’ve not seen any such problem. If you’re still having the issue, I’d be more inclined to suspect an issue on a particular server’s

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] trying to add SSL to an old MX server

2015-03-18 Thread Charlie Arehart
Jeff, before I proceed, let me note that the basics haven’t changed (running the keytool to put a cert into cacerts), so even an old article should suffice. That said, one thing such old articles generally don’t take into account, though (and this makes folks think the instructions must not be

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion 11 upgrade breaking ExtJS everywhere

2015-03-05 Thread Charlie Arehart
Mike, before folks might dig any further into this(and though this may already be an obvious thing you've checked), have you confirmed that the problem isn't something simpler, like the CFIDE/scripts folder being blocked or not there in the site you're using? You mention confirming there are

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Running CFExecute in ColdFusion 11

2015-02-02 Thread Charlie Arehart
Thanks for the update, Bettina. And while I realize you are opting to go with the other route, you may want to at least understand what was amiss here, as it could come back to bite you in other ways (perhaps other templates, or other related problems.) So as for the failing bat file, did you

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Moving from ColdFusion 9 standard to ColdFusion 11 standard

2014-12-21 Thread Charlie Arehart
Chris, sadly there’s no simple answer to your question 1. Are you trying to run CF11 on the same machine as CF9? That could have problems due to web server configuration issues. Are you putting it on a new machine? That could go well, but since this is IIS I’ll note that you could unexpectedly

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Issue with cftry and Query of Queries

2014-08-06 Thread Charlie Arehart
Here are a couple of things to consider: - a catch will fail to work if the code in the catch causes an error itself, in which case the error will be passed up to the next higher errorhandler in the chain, or dumped to the screen like a traditional CF error. That said, I see your code shows

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Creating effect of html tags in a Rich Text Format(RTF)

2014-06-20 Thread Charlie Arehart
What version of CF are you on, Chris? Why not use CFDOCUMENT? Since CF9, it can generate your word doc (a real one, rather than you trying to send plain text to the user via CFCONTENT), and I I'm pretty sure it would support conversion of HTML tags to corresponding word features. (I have to admit

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF10 and Exchange 2013

2014-03-20 Thread Charlie Arehart
But did you simply try testing a connection between CF10 and Exchange 2013? If it's that you do not yet have CF10 installed, do note that you can install the Developer (or Trial) edition for free. If you do that, I'd recommend you not install it on a prod server running CF 9 or earlier, unless

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF10 and Exchange 2013

2014-03-19 Thread Charlie Arehart
CF10 added support for Exchange 2010, not 13. (See that and other features of CF10 here: http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2012/3/7/charlie_areharts_ulti mate_cf10_new_features_list0 As for CF11/Splendor, the feature set is not complete, but I see no reference to 2013 in the PDFs

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: cfspreadsheet etc. question

2014-03-18 Thread Charlie Arehart
Good stuff, Jason. And I'll add, Jeff, that there are indeed other options for dealing with spreadsheets in CFML, and some have been shared by others here. I have a list of them as a category in my CF411 site: http://www.cf411.com/excel There may be many more than most realize, and Jeff

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: cfspreadsheet etc. question

2014-03-17 Thread Charlie Arehart
trying to do I did years ago working for another company and it was fairly simple (though lengthy code). It was 3rd party UDF but worked. I'm almost wondering if I may need to create the entire spreadsheet with CF including formulas, etc. On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Charlie Arehart char

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: cfspreadsheet etc. question

2014-03-16 Thread Charlie Arehart
Jeff, while you await a reply from anyone, and while you did reply kindly to my last note, you didn't really answer what I had asked: are you confirming you have the LATEST UPDATES installed for whatever version of CF you have? You want to rule that out before assuming it just can't work as you

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] does SPREADSHEETREMOVESHEET not work?

2014-03-14 Thread Charlie Arehart
Jeff, I have never used any of that functionality, but since you say you are on CF9, have you applied any/all updates? There may be bugs that were long-since fixed, but I find that many people (or their server admin's) never bother to update CF, especially 9 and earlier since it was often quite a

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] does SPREADSHEETREMOVESHEET not work?

2014-03-14 Thread Charlie Arehart
, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Charlie Arehart char...@carehart.org wrote: Jeff, I have never used any of that functionality, but since you say you are on CF9, have you applied any/all updates? There may be bugs that were long-since fixed, but I find that many people (or their server admin's) never bother

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] LDAP file size limit

2014-02-24 Thread Charlie Arehart
with no other firewall or load balancer in between itself and the LDAP server. On 2/24/2014 8:26 AM, Charlie Arehart wrote: OK, but even if it's a Tomcat app (as is CF10+ itself), that doesn't rule out IIS as a player in the equation. They (or a customer) could choose to implement it behind IIS

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] AVG exploit blackhat seo type 1703

2013-11-12 Thread Charlie Arehart
Thanks for the update. The issues all apply to CF7 as well. And even more so, in that Adobe may have only created updates for 8 and 9, for security vulnerabilities in recent years (support for 7 would have been dropped by Adobe when 9 came out in 2009. So it's all the more vital to lockdown the

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] AVG exploit blackhat seo type 1703

2013-11-10 Thread Charlie Arehart
Well, Jeff, it could be any of a number of things, but I think you're on the right track that it's more of a config thing than a code thing. My first guess (from helping others with a similar kind of breakin) is that the bad guys may have gotten in through the CFIDE/componentutils folder, which

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CFmail issue with CF10

2013-11-08 Thread Charlie Arehart
Management and Planning (404) 273-7131 (C) From: mailto:ad...@acfug.org ad...@acfug.org [ mailto:ad...@acfug.org mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Arehart Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 5:51 PM To: mailto:discussion@acfug.org discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CFmail

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CFmail issue with CF10

2013-11-08 Thread Charlie Arehart
. Thank you for looking into this. Jay Jayaraman Central Billing Services Financial Management and Planning (404) 273-7131 (C) From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Arehart Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 5:51 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: [ACFUG

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] wsconfig - CF 9.0.1 Windows 2008 R2 IIS 7

2013-11-07 Thread Charlie Arehart
, maybe I was rushing through it. Your comments make sense. Thanks again, On Nov 6, 2013 9:47 PM, Charlie Arehart char...@carehart.org wrote: Wow, Ajas, the answer is that it's ABSOLUTELY NOT the case. When you get ANY release of CF, it DOES NOT come with all the updates. And as for 9.0.1

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] wsconfig - CF 9.0.1 Windows 2008 R2 IIS 7

2013-11-07 Thread Charlie Arehart
adobe site earlier, maybe I was rushing through it. Your comments make sense. Thanks again, On Nov 6, 2013 9:47 PM, Charlie Arehart char...@carehart.org wrote: Wow, Ajas, the answer is that it's ABSOLUTELY NOT the case. When you get ANY release of CF, it DOES NOT come with all the updates

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CFmail issue with CF10

2013-11-07 Thread Charlie Arehart
...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Arehart Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 9:23 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CFmail issue with CF10 Are you saying that the CF9 and CF10 deployments are on the same box? Yes. Both deployments are in the same box If not, the unreachable

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] resetting admin password on CF10

2013-11-06 Thread Charlie Arehart
links and will probably test that out on a development environment as time allows. Thanks for the info. -Troy From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Arehart Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 8:07 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] resetting

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] wsconfig - CF 9.0.1 Windows 2008 R2 IIS 7

2013-11-06 Thread Charlie Arehart
Wow, Ajas, the answer is that it's ABSOLUTELY NOT the case. When you get ANY release of CF, it DOES NOT come with all the updates. And as for 9.0.1 specifically, there were 4 CHFs and many individual security fixes since it was released. The same is true for all releases. FWIW, I addressed

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] wsconfig - CF 9.0.1 Windows 2008 R2 IIS 7

2013-11-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Ajas, that was so with IIS 6 but no longer so with IIS 7 (particularly without running in IIS 6 compat mode, as you indicated). In IIS 7, the settings no longer propagate to newly added sites. You do have to run the wsconfig tool to either do a remove/re-add of all sites, or you can individually

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] resetting admin password on CF10

2013-11-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Troy, it Is true that when you add a new CF Admin user, even one with all admin roles allowed, it does NOT give them the security roles, so only that original Admin user can add a new user. No, you say that after running the passwordreset you still can't get in, but did you restart CF? You do

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CFLDAP oddity

2013-11-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Rob, while it could be hacking, I'd propose that it could be that spiders/bots or other automated request agents (including possibly your own monitoring or load balancing pings to CF pages) could be the cause of that unexpectedly high rate of requests. I realize you would think that your access

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] wsconfig - CF 9.0.1 Windows 2008 R2 IIS 7

2013-11-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Thanks for the kind regards. As for your question, that's something I've always wondered myself. :-) In fact, you will see that on the Adobe blog entry about that maxworkerthreads bug (from a few years ago) that I had asked this question specifically, and I never got an answer. I always wanted to

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] wsconfig - CF 9.0.1 Windows 2008 R2 IIS 7

2013-11-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Charlie Arehart char...@carehart.org wrote: Thanks for the kind regards. As for your question, that's something I've always wondered myself. :-) In fact, you will see that on the Adobe blog entry

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 10 webservice complex type within complex type

2013-09-17 Thread Charlie Arehart
I often see people trying to make XML processing work in one way when there are far better ways, just not well understood. I would always recommend to anyone doing XML processing in CFML that they take 30 minutes to look over what I think is a classic on this topic, by Nate Weiss, Utilizing XML

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 9.0 64 bit on IIS 7.5 Windows 2008 R2 SP1

2013-09-07 Thread Charlie Arehart
Ajas, do you realize that CF 9.0 does not support running on IIS 7? You can maybe finagle it, as blog entries like this show, but you're trying to force a shoe that doesn't fit. Why not just update to 9.0.1, which does add IIS 7 support? As for why things are not working as is, since you have to

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion Builder freezes abruptly

2013-09-03 Thread Charlie Arehart
: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion Builder freezes abruptly Thanks Charlie: This is very useful. I should switch to the CF Express edition and see if those freezes stop. _ From: Charlie Arehart char...@carehart.org To: discussion@acfug.org Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 3:43 PM Subject

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Unable to invoke CFC error when the Flex part tries to call a CFC

2013-09-03 Thread Charlie Arehart
Also, what's the significance of the 5 minutes? Is that perhaps your CF (or application's) session timeout? Is it the time that IIS's app pool is set to recycle? Either may be a clue to help you dig further. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Cameron

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Unable to invoke CFC error when the Flex part tries to call a CFC

2013-09-03 Thread Charlie Arehart
I'll save Cameron (or others) from a reply. :-) Charles is not something they can disallow. :-) It's not a server proxy, but rather a client one. You can use it (and tools like it, including some built into browsers) to track the requests made from a given web page, whether to components like

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Unable to invoke CFC error when the Flex part tries to call a CFC

2013-09-03 Thread Charlie Arehart
OK. But the “5 minutes” you mention sounds intriguing, so do keep thinking about that. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Chris Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 2:34 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Unable to invoke CFC error

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Unable to invoke CFC error when the Flex part tries to call a CFC

2013-09-03 Thread Charlie Arehart
Glad to help. And FWIW, Charles is not the only one that can analyze flex/flash remoting/AMF calls, as I mention on my list. But your problem may or may not be about that so much as perhaps something else in the formation of the request being sent to the server, and it may not be about AMF.

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion Builder freezes abruptly

2013-08-24 Thread Charlie Arehart
: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion Builder freezes abruptly Charlie, Mind pointing out some of the over looked features in the pay version? Scott Dowling (615) 260-9549 On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Charlie Arehart char...@carehart.org wrote: I didn't see anyone mention it: Troy, did

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ATL Code Camp

2013-08-21 Thread Charlie Arehart
Thanks for that heads-up, Doug. I'd missed news of it, even attending some recent MS user groups, sadly. There are at least a couple of interesting topics. Thanks. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Knudsen Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 8:36 PM To:

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 10 and REST and wtf?

2013-08-21 Thread Charlie Arehart
Thanks, Bill. Thankfully, we have many anchors-and indeed buoys, lighthouses, and radars, if I can stretch the analogy-- both in the wider CF world and in the ACFUG specifically. :-) I've learned from so many of them, and I acknowledged as much in my prefatory remarks of the CF10 WACK book. We

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 10 and REST and wtf?

2013-08-19 Thread Charlie Arehart
alternatives. On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Charlie Arehart char...@carehart.org wrote: Doug, here's something even some experienced hoster's don't know: after installing CF10, and/or adding updates, for many of the updates you need to then rebuild the web server connector (meaning they have

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 10 and REST and wtf?

2013-08-18 Thread Charlie Arehart
Doug, here's something even some experienced hoster's don't know: after installing CF10, and/or adding updates, for many of the updates you need to then rebuild the web server connector (meaning they have to open CF's web server config tool, then remove and re-add the connection of a site or all

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion Builder freezes abruptly

2013-08-10 Thread Charlie Arehart
Sorry, I was in a hurry when I wrote. I meant windowshow viewothergeneralprogress. Anyway, even without a connection to the sever, the progress view may be useful to understand background processing in CFB (and Eclipse). /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion Builder freezes abruptly

2013-08-09 Thread Charlie Arehart
Thanks for your kind regards, Chris. And isn’t it funny how troubling software can sometimes be like a petulant child: just when you starting watch it, it tends not to act up. :-) But patience, grasshopper. Yep, let’s see how it goes over time. Also, turn on the progress view

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Out of Memory?!?

2013-08-09 Thread Charlie Arehart
Good to hear. (Well, that's a sad part of my business: sometimes it helps to have another failure, but if it's new info that confirms or denies something, at least it's an advancement to the solution.) As for your question, FR is mainly a monitor of CF (or whatever java based server process you

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Out of Memory?!?

2013-08-08 Thread Charlie Arehart
Like you, I would think this is not memory related. I think that's just a really old error message, from the days when even the then Macromedia engineers could only throw up their hands and guess when something was amiss. I recently saw this error message happening for a client where we found

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion Builder freezes abruptly

2013-08-07 Thread Charlie Arehart
Chris, there could be any number of explanations, but one is that you may be running out of memory (within the heap of CFB). You can try to find out if that's possibly an issue by turning on the heap monitor within cfb (an available feature under windowpreferencesgeneral), to see if perhaps you

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Moving CFIDE folder

2013-06-24 Thread Charlie Arehart
Yep, that is one bummer about using the AdminAPI for such things. But then it is indeed an admin settings, so that's their thinking. (And that's why I assumed you would be able to find the value in the AdminAPI somewhere.) If perhaps you had reason to want to make it more generally available to

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Moving CFIDE folder

2013-06-21 Thread Charlie Arehart
Good questions, Nathan. I'm not aware of an answer to the first, but it would be great for someone to research and publish it. As for the second, I'm not aware of a variable, but I suspect it can be gotten from the Admin API. I'm not in a position to try to get that right now, but let's see if

[ACFUG Discuss] Two sessions at ACFUG tomorrow/Wed night

2013-06-11 Thread Charlie Arehart
Hey folks, just wanted to share a heads-up that I'll be presenting 2 sessions tomorrow (Wednesday) night at the ACFUG meeting: Updating/Hotfixing ColdFusion 10, 9 and 8: Tips and Traps and Locking down the #ColdFusion Administrator: Your First Line of Defense Against Hackers For the talk

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Two sessions at ACFUG tomorrow/Wed night

2013-06-11 Thread Charlie Arehart
Hi Scott, I will, yes. Likely just before (or just after) the talk tomorrow night. I'll throw out as well (for those who don't know) that I can help with either challenge as well, on a consulting basis (remotely, short-term, and even on-demand). More at the consulting page of my carehart.org

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Getting Connection Refused

2013-05-21 Thread Charlie Arehart
Glad to hear you find things resolved, Brooks. But to be clear, the resources I pointed to did clarify that this was a JVM issue (I just didn't say that specifically in my pointing them out). :-) They did also talk about changing the TTL value. Finally, they did also propose that just restarting

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Getting Connection Refused

2013-05-16 Thread Charlie Arehart
Brooks, do you mean you were reading *that* CF caches DNS entries? Yes, that's so. And while there doesn't seem to be a way to clear it (other than to restart CF), there is a way to control how long it's set to live. For more, see these blog entries (one really old, one relatively old):

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] FYI - Security Advisory for ColdFusion - Active zero day exploit

2013-05-09 Thread Charlie Arehart
Same here, Frank. I've never heard of there ever being a gettingstarted directory in CFIDE, ever. I've checked multiple machines just now, and find none. I do recall there being one some number of releases ago, but never in the CFIDE that I recall. Perhaps in CFDOCS. I don't recall if it was

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ACFUG meeting tomorrow night (May 1): Solr with James Mccullough

2013-05-07 Thread Charlie Arehart
drop me a note with your address and I'll try to email you directly (rather than through meetup.com)? My address is char...@carehart.org. Thanks. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Arehart Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 2:42 PM To: discussion

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ACFUG meeting tomorrow night (May 1): Solr with James Mccullough

2013-05-07 Thread Charlie Arehart
...@franksdomain.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 9:20 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Cc: Charlie Arehart Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] ACFUG meeting tomorrow night (May 1): Solr with James Mccullough Unfortunately, I wanted to be there, but could not make it to the meeting... Is there a video

[ACFUG Discuss] ACFUG meeting tomorrow night (May 1): Solr with James Mccullough

2013-04-30 Thread Charlie Arehart
Just a heads up. We do have an ACFUG meeting tomorrow night (May 1): Solr with James Mccullough For more info, and to RSVP, see: http://www.meetup.com/AtlantaCFUG/events/113809862/ /charlie PS Normally meetings are announced only on the announcement list, which you can sign up for at the old

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 9 IP restriction

2013-04-20 Thread Charlie Arehart
and found this. Perhaps this might lead you to something. http://marakana.com/bookshelf/jboss_admin_tutorial/security.html HIH Sent from my iPhone On Apr 19, 2013, at 10:40 PM, Charlie Arehart char...@carehart.org wrote: Using what web server? That’s the crux of where any

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 9 IP restriction

2013-04-19 Thread Charlie Arehart
Using what web server? That's the crux of where any such protection would be done. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Mike Staver Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 1:30 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 9 IP restriction Does anyone

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: New CF Vulnerability - Check your servers

2013-04-12 Thread Charlie Arehart
Yes. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Ajas Mohammed Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 2:51 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: New CF Vulnerability - Check your servers Thanks Cameron. There were 2 more hotfixes

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 9 64 bit installer file

2013-04-12 Thread Charlie Arehart
Yes, again. :-) /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Ajas Mohammed Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 8:54 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 9 64 bit installer file No, both files were same size and same name. I guess when I

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] 9.01 vs 9.02

2013-04-12 Thread Charlie Arehart
Steve, this is a point I just made in one of my replies this week to Ajas, but to reiterate, any security hotfixes created by Adobe are created for 9.0, 9.0.1, and 9.0.2. So no, you are not in any danger, as long as you always apply the latest HFs. As for not updating to Java 7, yes, technically

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 9 64 bit installer file

2013-04-11 Thread Charlie Arehart
Ajas, I think there's an important explanation for what you're seeing, that you may not be considering. First, as Troy has said, yes, the installer does not change based on Std, Ent, Trial, or Dev. The one installer does ask during installation which of those you want. But second, as for the

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 9 64 bit installer file

2013-04-11 Thread Charlie Arehart
Glad to help. A few more thoughts. First, to be clear, I made no mention of CF10 at all. Not sure what led you to bring that up. :-) As for your situation, I do now understand that you would want 9.0 and not 9.0.2. That's fine. I was just clarifying the situation. So if you have a 9.0

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 9 64 bit installer file

2013-04-11 Thread Charlie Arehart
Thanks for the clarifications. As for the CF9 backwards licensing, the good news is that a CF 9 license is indeed for any version: 9.0, 9.0.1, or 9.0.2. :-) As for your having the 2 files, the old and one from a few months, if they are the same, I thought you had said you found one had a

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Images as Blobs

2013-04-02 Thread Charlie Arehart
No, Mike. Both the CFIMAGE tag (and functions) and even the CFCONTENT tag (if you had reason to want to you that) offer means to generate their results from an object in memory. It just may be vital to convert it from the form you obtain from the DB into a form that can be sent by these

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF10 Migration Questions

2013-03-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Sounds like a winner. Thanks for stepping up to present that topic, Bettina. As long as you're asking us for more possible related topics, I'd think you'd want to address the autohotfix mechanism. Besides how it works, you could clarify how one MUST apply them even with a download of CF10 made

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF10 Migration Questions

2013-03-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
process. Thanks for volunteering Charlie!! Looks like we have a lot of great meetups in the near future!! On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Charlie Arehart char...@carehart.org wrote: Sounds like a winner. Thanks for stepping up to present that topic, Bettina. As long as you're asking us

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] New CF Vulnerability - Check your servers

2013-01-22 Thread Charlie Arehart
Yes, there are various issues like that which will now bite people who had not done any of the security fixes until this one. I've been meaning to do a blog entry to highlight them, but have just been too busy. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Ajas Mohammed

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] New CF Vulnerability - Check your servers

2013-01-22 Thread Charlie Arehart
at 7:31 PM, Charlie Arehart char...@carehart.org wrote: Yes, there are various issues like that which will now bite people who had not done any of the security fixes until this one. I've been meaning to do a blog entry to highlight them, but have just been too busy. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] New CF Vulnerability - Check your servers

2013-01-18 Thread Charlie Arehart
and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Charlie Arehart char...@carehart.org wrote: Ok, call off the alarm (those of you on 9.0.2). It turns out that the confusion about the new hotfix (regarding 9.0.2) was just a mistake

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] New CF Vulnerability - Check your servers

2013-01-18 Thread Charlie Arehart
:-) Thanks. I will note that they did just yesterday kindly add me to the acknowledgements section of the security advisory, a first for me. :-) Various issues caused the delay. Nothing nefarious. I got a call from someone on PSIRT explaining the situation. I was just happy to get the mention.

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] New CF Vulnerability - Check your servers

2013-01-15 Thread Charlie Arehart
Thanks for sharing it here, Cam. Do beware, though: for those on 9.0.2, there's a glitch in the hotfix (a missing web-inf.zip within the cf902.zip). I've added a comment on the blog entry that points to that (http://blogs.coldfusion.com/post.cfm/coldfusion-security-update-for-version

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] New CF Vulnerability - Check your servers

2013-01-15 Thread Charlie Arehart
entry, on the hotfix and more. http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2013/1/15/Part3_serious_securi ty_threat Still planning a part 4, with post mortem and more. A bit busy now to commit to when. :-) /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] New CF Vulnerability - Check your servers

2013-01-10 Thread Charlie Arehart
Yep, that is the same, and while they work on a real fix, that bulletin warns of some key things to lock down in the meantime (as I did in my blog entries, though /CFIDE/componentutils was not one I'd seen used in any of the compromises I found. It was always CFIDE/adminapi, and I have asked Adobe

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion 10 updates Offline

2012-12-07 Thread Charlie Arehart
Please see this, the first message pinned to the top of the messages area on the meetup site for the ACFUG: http://www.meetup.com/AtlantaCFUG/messages/boards/thread/16786512 /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Ramirez, Ruben - Curtis 1000 Sent: Friday,

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion 10 updates Offline

2012-12-06 Thread Charlie Arehart
at 11:10 PM, Charlie Arehart char...@carehart.org wrote: Glad to hear it helped. As for the properties file, that's the first I've ever heard of using that (in Windows or Unix). Since you seem to indicate its use with Windows, what's it for? (I could google it, sure, but I'd like to hear your

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion 10 updates Offline

2012-12-06 Thread Charlie Arehart
Ah, got it now. I missed that this was a silent install. Thanks for your patience with me, Mike. :-) /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Mike Staver Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 6:32 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion 10

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion 10 updates Offline

2012-12-05 Thread Charlie Arehart
Glad to hear it helped. As for the properties file, that's the first I've ever heard of using that (in Windows or Unix). Since you seem to indicate its use with Windows, what's it for? (I could google it, sure, but I'd like to hear your perspective, such as what led you to use it at all. I've

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion 10 updates Offline

2012-12-01 Thread Charlie Arehart
Glad to have helped. As for that problem you're experiencing, here's good news. First, it's not at all a Solaris issue. I've seen it on other OS's as well. Second, while I plan to do a blog entry with more details, the quick solution is just to clear all the cookies for whatever domain

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion 10 updates Offline

2012-11-30 Thread Charlie Arehart
Mike, this need to run the updates on a non-connected machine is indeed addressed. Just not on the administrator screen (perhaps something they should change). The question was asked as a comment in the most recent blog entry about updater 5, and I offered an extended explanation and answer to

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] running coldfusion apps on Mac

2012-11-28 Thread Charlie Arehart
Steve, are you referring to the latter part of this thread (about Rick wanting off the list)? Or are you referring to the original discussion about running CF on Mac? Just curious. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Steve Ross Sent: Wednesday, November 28,

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] running coldfusion apps on Mac

2012-11-21 Thread Charlie Arehart
Great to hear. Thanks for the update, and glad to help. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Dusty Hale Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:24 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] running coldfusion apps on Mac Charlie: Yea I

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] running coldfusion apps on Mac

2012-11-21 Thread Charlie Arehart
R, no need to holler. This seems the first such request you've ever made, right? Let me try to help. (If perhaps you got added to the list and didn't request it, that would be pretty hard to have happen, but I suppose it could. On the other hand, if you did add yourself previously and now you

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] running coldfusion apps on Mac

2012-11-20 Thread Charlie Arehart
Dusty, there are a few potential problems. First, are you saying that you installed CF10 telling it to connect to IIS during the installer, telling it to run with all sites? And then after that, did you load up the CF Admin with localhost or 127.0.0.1 (which worked), but now find that when you

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Quick Survey - Mura Users? Railo?

2012-11-02 Thread Charlie Arehart
Yes, no, no. I note you said using mura and railo. Thanks for that clarification. Some with such polls say have used, which could be answered positively by anyone who's looked into the thing but is not currently using it. That generally seems an important distinction. Glad you phrased it as you

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] How would you feel about doing a contract job in Costa Rica

2012-10-31 Thread Charlie Arehart
Cool stuff, indeed. Thanks for the additional info. Again, I recommend anyone who's looking for a break from the rat race to consider the possibility. :-) /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Dusty Hale Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 8:53 AM To:

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Adobe products... Educational discount?

2012-10-30 Thread Charlie Arehart
And Frank, note more specifically in the reference Howard offered that students/teachers can get a Creative Cloud membership (with those tools you seek and more) at just $20/month. More at http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=displayProductca tegoryOID=7335802store=OLS-EDU.

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] How would you feel about doing a contract job in Costa Rica

2012-10-30 Thread Charlie Arehart
Server yes, surfer no. :-) Thanks, Wes, for the thought. (But it's Arehart, not Earhart. Common mistake, so no worries.) And Dusty, so that's where you went to? Didn't know. But guess what: I was just there this past week until yesterday! Was helping the folks at Britt. (For the yanks here,

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] How would you feel about doing a contract job in Costa Rica

2012-10-30 Thread Charlie Arehart
And January is among the nicest times of the year there, right? (We got to experience some of the rainiest weather of the year last week, but also a couple of pretty days.) /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Dusty Hale Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 6:49

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] How would you feel about doing a contract job in Costa Rica

2012-10-30 Thread Charlie Arehart
Wow, wouldn't that be funny, indeed, if we might have hooked up there and yet have not been able to for a while here in Atlanta. Indeed, when was the last time you got down to a meeting, for everyone to enjoy your company? :-) Anyway, enjoy the trip and the country. Just be prepared: it's not

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Need DTD Schema for CF10

2012-10-24 Thread Charlie Arehart
I already spoke to Ed directly (as he had emailed me separately too), and I'm just seeing this. But I'll share what I did, in case it may help other readers here. Good news: Adobe does indeed offer free updated extensions/tag help/tag completion/etc for Dreamweaver for each release, up to CF10.

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CFLDAP and memory errors

2012-10-09 Thread Charlie Arehart
I would suspect that it may be only made worse by increasing the heap. :-) Strap on your seatbelts. If the problem was easily understood and solved, you'd have found the answer elsewhere. I'll share here some thoughts you don't see/hear often. It will take a few paragraphs to give proper context,

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CFLDAP and memory errors

2012-10-09 Thread Charlie Arehart
Cool stuff. Thanks for sharing, Jason. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Jason Delmore Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 4:09 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CFLDAP and memory errors Rob, I think the memory part of this error

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 10 Dynamic Java Loading

2012-09-24 Thread Charlie Arehart
Good to hear. Thanks for the update. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Mike Staver Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 12:34 AM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 10 Dynamic Java Loading So, I reached out to the JavaLoader mail list

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