Archives for "ColdFusion"

Posted by robhyland on 2nd August 2011
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Internet Explorer Won’t Download Delivered Files

Today I came across an issue where Internet Explorer 9, and maybe some earlier versions, won’t download files that were delivered off SSL with PHP or ColdFusion. I was very frustrated as I have been securely delivering files this way for a long time. I eventually found the solution in a forum -

This is what worked for me to resolve the exact issue you are having, and may be useful for anyone else in the same position:

Firstly – Note: this answer only relates to people who are having trouble downloading non-IE files over SSL (https://), such as .exe, .pdf, .msi etc.

Go to Internet Options in IE9 (Tools > Internet Options) or click the cog in the top right of the Browser and go to Internet Options.

1. Choose the Advanced Tab
2. Scroll down to Security
3. Un-check Do not save encrypted pages to disk

You should now be able to download the file that IE9 won’t download.

Have fun.

Posted by robhyland on 29th April 2010
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Getting Started with ColdFusion Builder

My ColdFusion Builder journey has begun. I am used to working in Dreamweaver, and already there are two things that I miss:

  1. I wish that I could set up a project, give it a URL, and then hit the files in the preview browsers. I don’t like that I have to configure a server. Because of our server setup, this is not convenient. I even went through the trouble of setting one up, but CF Builder doesn’t recognize it when I try to add it to the project, which is odd since it knows it is there and running.
  2. I wish I could Find/Replace in the file system, like I can in Dreamweaver. CF Builder only provides Find and Replace functionality within a file.

I know that I am just getting started and I need to give it some time.

Posted by robhyland on 6th November 2009
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Interview with Jeremy Allaire

COMPUTERWORLD has published an interview with Jeremy Allaire, one of the co-creators of ColdFusion. I think it is worth the read.

Posted by robhyland on 10th September 2009
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cffile: copy vs upload

I spent about an hour debugging today because I couldn’t figure out where an uploaded file was going. It was disappearing when the <cffile action="upload"> tag was used. I eventually decided to try to just copy the file, using <cffile action="copy">, and it threw a permissions error. I am not sure why the other method did not, but it would have saved me a lot of time if it did. 

Posted by robhyland on 9th September 2009
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Visit from Terry Ryan

We had a nice visit today from Terry Ryan. He gave a brief overview of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder. I heard a lot about both products at cfunited and it was nice to hear more. I am excited about some of the new features they are rolling out and think I will use the Office integration a lot. CF Builder looks nice, too. I have a beta verson installed, but have had a hard time getting it hooked up to our sites properly.