Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / November 2004

Hi, i'm having some difficulty with cfhttp, I can login to a site ok, receive
back the session vars etc. but when trying to post these back to the site to
access a further page It doesn't seem to work as the external site won't let me
get to the page i'm after.  The attached is ...

Our client has an ASP site, and we won a contract to provide additional
functionality on separate pages in ColdFusion.  Now he says he'd also like a
site search.  Any problem with Verity indexing ASP pages?  Any way to make a
verity search window show up in an ASP page?  I've ...

We use cfContent to send various files to the browser.
Lately we tried to log the downloads for a statistic-module and had to find
out that several browser-requests reach the server for one download.
This alone is more or less a performance issue (I was able to recognize the

in my CFMX intranet application I need to open a MSAccess session from
within the browser. The idea is to have a button clicking which would
transfer a certain key value to Access, open Access with a certain form, and
open it with the corresponding table row - all not on the server ...

I have an application.cfm called "TTPL" on the root of my webserver. In a
sub folder I have another application.cfm called "HomeFront". Is it possible
to use a session variable from the application on the the web root to the
application in the sub folder?

HI,
we are working with Groupwie email client from Novell as a default email
client. our application needs to open the default email client when the user
clickes on a button. we need to know the classes, methods and properties of the

We're running up-to-patch CFMX 6.1 on Win 2003.  Allegedly the 6.1 upgrade
should have fixed CFLDAP returning unuseable binaries in the objectSID and
objectGUID fields. (<a
href='http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/coldfusion/mx61updater/

The err is :  ' Inappropriate authentication '  <cfldap action='QUERY'    
name='results'    
attributes='sn,givenname,department,telephoneNumber,mobile,mail'    
start='cn=users,dc=bt,dc=org'    

Is there a way to give a personlized message on a web page if the session
variable times out ?  My initial attempt was not sucessful, I tried in the
Application.cfm to put this line of code:  <CFIF Not
Isdefined('session.username')>          <CFLOCATION url='my_error.cfm'> ...

I am using cffile to upload some image to a site. I want to be able to detect
the width of the image before or after uplaoding so I can trigger the reaizing
of that image if it is too large. Does anyone know how I can find the
dimensions of an image?

Hi!  My recent websites use div layers instead of tables. This makes it almost
impossible to have the debbugging output on, because the debugging output is
written on top of the website output.  Does anyone know, how to have the
debugging output on and see it properly on websites ...

I have a feeling that I just missed some simple piece of logic that would allow
me to do this, so please forgive my stupidity.  If I have a menubar.cfm
template file that is saved at my web root (ie www.xyz.com/menubar.cfm ) that
is cfincluded on pages in different folders, is ...

First of all I would like to stress out that I'm a beginner in this area.
I've created a cfc that checks the message headers of a POP3 email server.
This CFC (myMail.cfc) is served as a webservice (access is remote). Code is
bellow:

hey guys...! (bad thing web-based forums are down... :( )
Well.. this time i think i'm going to need some real expert help... i have this problem...
I had downloaded "Anoto SDK", and it is all based in ASP, but i need it working in CFM, this is the original code (ASP sample):
<%@ ...

i have a cfm page in a IIS virtual dir and i want that cfm page to be able to access the application scope of that site. is that possible?
thanks
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