Category Archives: ColdFusion

March 3, 2010
Detecting https across Railo and ColdFusion Server– also posted in Railo

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 [...]

August 15, 2009
New location for FarCry subversion repositories– also posted in Farcry

The folks at Daemon have completed some migrations with their subversion repositories which directly effects FarCry. Notes from the farcry-dev groups:
All URL’s should be replaced with this repo location:
https://modius.svn.cvsdude.com/farcry
All project folders are relative to this root. For example, the p520
branch for FarCry 5.2.x is available here:
https://modius.svn.cvsdude.com/farcry/core/branches/p520/
You can re-checkout or use the “relocate” command if [...]

July 14, 2009
Hiding the FarCry tray on the front end– also posted in Farcry

Came across this nice tip a little while ago from AJ Mercer on the farcry-dev group.
It hides the FarCry “tray” which is visible on the front end of your website to users who are logged in to FarCry. I happen to have a use case for this at the moment so it was good timing.
Simply [...]

June 9, 2009
Setting application variables in FarCry– also posted in Farcry

I just thought I’d write up some quick thoughts on setting application scoped variables in FarCry as it occured to me that it could be a little confusing to non-FarCry developers.
It doesn’t really matter which framework you use, you can theoretically set you application variables anywhere you want, but ideally you want to follow [...]