I have a job where ad-hoc client support via email is a regular occurrence. Taking screen shots of sites and particular screens to help explain the sometimes random and crazy words that come out of my brain is always helpful for the hapless recipient of my ramblings. So I went on a hunt for a […]
Trying to get a local network talk via a VPNto another internal network is not something I want to try and do again in a hurry. However – once I had my local machine at home chatting nicely with our hosted production server network I realised that something came to my attention that hasn’t for […]
I have had a long a flirting relationship with Amazon ECS thru using it with PHP and SOAP, and now that I am totally ColdFusion reliant I have revisited the products sectionon my site, and done something a bit more useful with it. Amazon ECS is a pretty simple system. Hit a URL with some […]
I was just running the ajax examples from Ben Forta for ColdFusion 8 and I noticed that I could add ?cfdebug to the end of the URL in order to see the inline AJAX debug screen. The ColdFusion team over at Adobe have built it in to help our now Web 2.0 ajax’ed coding lives. […]
When using cfform don’t leave the action tag blank. This simple omission could you open to XSS/CSS Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities. Why would you do this? Well if you use an ordinary form tag and leave the action attribute blank the form defaults to submitting to the page in the URL – the browser fills […]
Following on from my previous posts on 301 redirects, if you have access to the IIS administrator or to the Apache httpd.conf file, you can achieve the same outcome without any server side processing and have the redirect handled faster via the webserver. The 301 status code is used to indicate that a page has […]
Following on from my previous post, ColdFusion allows redirects by using the cflocation tag. However cflocation is only a temporary redirect and it returns the 302 http moved temporarily header to the browser: The 301 status code is used to indicate that a page has permanently moved, and to do this in ColdFusion we actually […]
I recently moved my site from PHP over to ColdFusion, and this gave me a nice warm fluffy feeling. However, some of the articles I posted actually received a fair amount of traffic, so I had to leave a few php pages in the system and ask them to redirect to the new and improved […]
Another of ColdFusion 8’s new tag features is the cfthread tag. Previously I showed you how to sleep a thread using Java and ColdFusion MX for version 6 and 7. Now the Adobe team have come up with a cfthread tag, that among other things allows you to sleep a thread: This will set the […]
