Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / April 2005

Hi, im having a problem with the differences in CFMAIL and CF5.0 and CF6.1.  I
have a cfmail tag that sends the username and password to the mail server. But
if soemone that has CF5, the tag errors out because Cf5 doesent support
username or password in CFMAIL. I created a CFIF ...

We are receiving the following error on all our custom java tags since our
upgrade to CF7
Error processing CFX custom tag "CFX_cfx_text2Query.jar".  
The CFX custom tag "CFX_cfx_text2Query.jar" was not found in the custom tag

I need to write some ColdFusion code that will do things a little differently
based on what ColdFusion server it is running on.  Is there any way in
ColdFusion you can get the IP address or host name of the ColdFusion server?  
As long as it doesn't return 127.0.0.1 and localhost ...

Hi everyone, I am looking for a way to require (redirect) users to access the
page they are on via SSL.  The reason why I want to do this on the client-side
is because I don't have access to the server and also because I want to have
portions of the web site that do not require ...

When I try to use even the simplest cfchart in CF 7 (the simple pie chart from
the docs...), i get the following:
Server Error
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your

All of CF's RE functions act in a weird way, contrary to the documentation
(both CF's own, and the underlying Java Regex docs).  The special characters ^
and $ are defined as:  'Boundary matchers  ^ The beginning of a line  $ The end
of a line'  But, CF will only match the ...

I'm trying to create an archive page of links to articles added to a database,
and I would like to group these by months and years.  So, for example my first
page would look something like;  April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January
2005 Decemeber 2004  etc etc  Now, the code ...

i have the code below to find the distance between two zips....but i want to
find all the zips around another in a given distance (say 10 miles around
10015), anyone know how to calc?
this is code to find the distance between two zipcodes (you must have a

How do you create a tree control that displays your computers folders and files?  Should be similar to the control that is in the ColdFusion Administrator that pops up when you click the "Browse Server" button when setting up an Access datasource.
Where can I find tutorials?

I am using CF 6.1, and need to connect to an exchange mail server running SMTP,
to read emails.  I have tried CFPOP, but it doesn't seem to work, I assume
because it is meant for POP3 accounts(?).  Is it possible to use CF to read
emails via SMTP?  Do I need to ask our techies to ...

I have researched the following CF options:
Custom Tags
CFC's
CFX

I am trying to think of a technique to lock the user out say 5-10 minutes if
that user failed to authenticate three times consecutively within a minute.  I
am thinking of implement using session variables only, and not using the sql
server tables.  If anyone can post their good ...

I have a problem with a hosted site.
There is a search facility, the result set can be very large.  So I created a
sp to only return 1000 records at a time.
There is also a next/previous naviagation to traverse through the 1000 records.

I don't know if this is how macromedia do it, but my guess is that you would
use the missing template handler to take any 404s received in the GO folder and
forward those requests to the appropriate KB article.

Has anyone seen this error before?
The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: cfoutput
Thanks