Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / May 2008

I'm trying to bind a spry data set to a CFC function. My code is working fine
in my test environment but not in production. In production, when I try loading
the script that does the binding, I'm getting an error saying
Error loading spry dataset FooYou from URL: /MyComponent.cfc ...

I am using CF 8
I have a text file (mylog.txt)  that currently stores login information for
our users.  I need to parse and extract some basic information from the file
and I am having a hard time.  I need to know the following

I can not get around this problem... I have tried:
<cfset model = xmlParse(#cfhttp.fileContent#)>
<cfset model = xmlParse(cfhttp.fileContent)>
<cfset model = xmlParse(ToString(cfhttp.fileContent))>

When do cookie client variables expire?  Where do you edit this information?  I
see a time limit of 10 days in my CF administrator, but not sure how to edit
it.  Is this even a correct number?  If anyone has any information, please let
me know ASAP

Hey all,  so i have a page that stores some data in a struct, i convert the
struct to wddx, encrypt it and pass the string in a form field.  On the action
page i decrypt it but it's not decrypting correctly, which does not allow me to
convert it back to a cfml struct.  if i ...

I have been unable to connect to an SAP web service.  None of the discussions
on the web seem to touch on my problem.  This web service doesn?t work like the
simple web service examples that are posted all over the web.
When I use the Dreamweaver proxy to write my code, it ...

I've been able to make bind cfselects to cfforms format="html", but not where format="flash".  Has anyone done this?  Thoughts on how to make this work would be appreciated!
cfwild

I got a bit of the problem here, I am doing zip code radius and trying to
return the results to a select box.
I want to display city, state, zip and distance in the select box and that's
where I get the problem.

Has anyone been able to use authorize.net's ARB api successfully?  If so, was
there anything special you had to do?
I was able to post to their testing URL, and receive a well formed XML
response, but once I switched over to their production URL I receive and http

I'm trying to get a simple perl script to run via CFEXECUTE on a Unix box
running CFMX 7.02 and have not been successful. I have spent considerable time
searching and have not found a working solution.
I have full control of the box and it's in a development environment behind a ...

We use application scope variables solely as "constants".  We set their values
in the application.cfc OnApplicationStart.  Their values are then only ever
read, never written to.
1. I put cflock statements around them in application.cfc.  Is this really

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Is it possible to create an IIS virtual directory programmatically using
Coldfusion? Is there some set of server objects that could be tapped into using
COM, for example?

I know you can edit the global config file to have it point to a local config
file.  But we have multiple customers on our server that require their own
individual config file.  Is there any way to get the cftextarea to do this?  
I'd like to pass the info using a cfif (customer ...

I'm using session vars to maintain whether or not a user is logged in on our
site. The only problem is is that the session vars seem to be lost after I call
a CFC that then does a CFHTTP post.
Does anyone know how I maintain the session vars?

hi - here's a good one for you..
we want to be able to take a screengrab of a site's index page and save it as
jpg (we have a list of 1000 sites we want to do this for)
i'm thinking that it can probably be done using cfhttp and then outputting the