Author Archives: Michael Sharman
- March 3, 2010
- Detecting https across Railo and ColdFusion Server
Previously I had a way of detecting whether page requests were being made via ssl but today I came across a scenario where this doesn’t work. Let me explain…
Right now we’re looking at developing across different ColdFusion engines, “ColdFusion” of course but also “Railo”. One of the applications we had detected whether a request was [...]
- January 19, 2010
- cfhttp issues using “.local” on Max OSX
Ran into an interesting problem today doing something quite simple. Basically all I was doing was posting xml data to a URL, but I kept getting a 408 request timeout and I didn’t know why.
We happen to use the “.local” domain name structure for local development. I was posting data from one local site to [...]
- October 30, 2009
- BrowserLab live on adobe.com
I’m probably a bit behind the times with this one, but Adobe have added “BrowserLab” functionality to “preview and test your web pages on leading browsers and operating systems – on demand“.
Seems to work like other paid services, but is free
https://browserlab.adobe.com/
Available browser options (across mac and windows) include:IE 6/7/8
Firefox 2/3
Safari 3/4
- October 28, 2009
- Extracting URL variables using JavaScript
Server side languages are cool in that they give you a nice associative array to access URL variables. ColdFusion has the URL scope, PHP has $_GET[] etc, but how do you get these values easily with JavaScript?
I came across a post over at Jake Munson’s blog which had just what I needed. Actually although Jakes [...]
- August 15, 2009
- Firefox changing default download location?
Hmm it seems firefox (Windows) 3.5.2 has decided to change the default location for downloading files. Used to be the desktop, but if you suddenly discover that you can’t find things you’ve download you might want to head to Tools->Options in firefox.
If you see “Downloads” as the chosen folder (as below), you can change it [...]