Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / October 2004

I have been trying to get CF MX 6.1 to download some XML files from a remote
server. I can do this manually using the ftp address in explorer and also,
using the same method download them directly to the server using the browser.
CF, however, can list the files within the ...

I have a customer who wants to bring up company information by simply entering
their phone number after his domain name like this.
www.hisdomain.com/6041234567
This of course generates a 404 error. But what I want is a way to read this as

Working on election site an would like to cross tab results using SQL
Server. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Can anyone help me generate an sql statement that will work not only for
this race but for other races as well using a where clause?

just modify the if statement to hold two comparisons :
if (date compare 1) and (date compare 2)
ex:
<cfif DateCompare(query.timestamp, DateAdd("d", -30, Now())) GTE 0 and

I have a problem nesting the output here. The inner loop will give me correct
data but only one time as it repeats itself till the end of the outer loop. The
cfoutput query works like it is supposed to. I have tried using a index loop
inside the output query as well. Any ideas.. ...

I have Cold Fusion Server MX 6.1 running on RedHat Linux ES 3.0 against an
Oracle 9i database.
I would like to run multiple web servers load balanced behind an F5 BigIP
Router.

I need to create a drop down of the year range that relates to records present in a database. I haven't found any script to do that but it must have been done. Anybody?.
Thanks!

Does anyone know how I can retrieve a full URL with parameters into a
variable??
Example:
The URL shows:

I'm trying to include a variable in a cfinclude and it's bombing my page out,
is this possible?
For example, I'm trying to inclue
<cfinclude template="page.cfm?variable=thing">

We upgraded to CF MX 6.1 mid-Sept and ran the 6.1 Updated last week.  We have
several IIS Web servers running on both the same and different NTs.  For all
password protected applications, we set cookies on all Web servers for customer
number and member groups.  Since the upgrade ...

I am calling records in sql and on the output of the records I need to filter
between dates. Is there an if statement example that would show me how to do so?
Here is what I have which does not work...
<cfoutput query="testing">

I am using CFINVOKE to consume a webservice.  There is one function that allows
you to read back image files from the server and returns the file as
base64Binary.  It has the option to convert to PDF but when I use
<cfcontent

I guess you guys are familiar with this custom tag. All it does is populate
the second drop-down based on selection of values in the first drop-down.
Anyway, I am susing this tag twice in my page. This page I am building is one
huge form. So when we  use this custom tag, we have ...

Does anyone know if it is possible to kill an active cold fusion session if it
is not your session? I have successfully used the following code to output all
active sessions:
<cfset sessiondata = createobject("java","coldfusion.runtime.SessionTracker")>

I need to access information from a server using cfhttp. the problem is that in
order to get the server to return the pages that I need I must first login so
that the server can set a cookie on my machine and then all subsequent page
requests offer up this cookie.