Cold Fusion is giving me a headache.
January 21, 2003 | 
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I spent a good part of my afternoon working with our Cold Fusion driven CMS. I was trying to use Cold Fusion to set a cookie. Should be pretty straight forward. It wasn’t.
I think it was a combination of limitations (ahem - bugs?) in Cold Fusion, quirkiness with our CMS and rigid requirements of the cookie variables themselves.
In any case, I think I figured it out using a horrible hack that I’ll not even try to explain to you — but it works. It’s days like this that I wish I could take the word “developer” out of my job title.
I’ve got a code head ache and I need a beer!
UPDATE - as I was typing this I found out that yes, this is a “limitation” of Cold Fusion and I’m not the only one who has had this problem. Whew. I was feeling like either a fool or a crazy person for awhile there.
Either way — I still need that beer.
Whoah - HOLD THE PHONE. This is my 200th post! Whoopie! Make that two beers.
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1. James said:
It’s actually not a bug, they followed the letter of the law regarding HTTP requests (I think), while others didn’t. Sadly the standard is dumb and in ColdFusion MX it’s been switched to the more logical way of handling cookies and location redirection.
Posted on January 22, 2003 03:56 PM | #
2. Keith said:
Hmm. Oh well, I got it figured out in any case. Took me awhile though.
Thanks for the info!
Posted on January 22, 2003 06:22 PM | #
3. Greg said:
Completely off topic but where the hell do folks find time to bash Mozilla?
http://www.mozillaquest.com/
http://home.earthlink.net/~mozblubber
Both of those sites do absolutely nothing but fud mozilla to death. The first url is even worse because the fool actually paid money to register a domain!!!!
Sorry for the rant. Im just tee’d a bit. Measures should be taken to shut them down.
On to Cold Fusion.
Yes, it can be a pain but so long as the beer is readily available, well. ;)
Posted on January 23, 2003 02:53 AM | #
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