Best of Talk (July 18, 2002)

(CF-Talk) Idea Incubator - javax.imageio.ImageReader

CFX Image is the default way that people use to create and manipulate graphics on the fly in ColdFusion. This thread at first discusses how to replace the CFX Image with a Java class to do the same thing. Then it goes into questions of using a CFX to render an image or a thumbnail of an URL, and some concerns that people have about people coming to a website that uses this technology and using it in a way for which it wasn't intended. Several good references to articles, both present and future.
Idea Incubator - javax.imageio.ImageReader

 

(CF-Talk) CFMX and WebServices - AxisFault FaultCode???

Someone tried playing around with a webservice, as published in an article in CFDJ ("A Quick and Easy WebService with CFMX"), and was getting errors when he used CFINVOKE to call the CFC as a Webservice (but not as a component). This led to a discussion of why it's a good idea not to use queries in Webservices.
CFMX and WebServices - AxisFault FaultCode???

 

(CF-Talk)Filesystem Security (was: Idea Incubator - javax.imageio.ImageReader)

The spawn of the idea incubator thread we started with in today's "Best of," this thread goes into further detail about why a CFX that generates a thumbnail of an URl being run on someone's site might be bad, or insecure, in a shared hosting environment.
Filesystem Security (was: Idea Incubator - javax.imageio.ImageReader)

 

(CF-Talk) Including a File with a Physical Address

This addresses the question of how to include a file that is above the web root directory in a page. The file also has to be parsed by ColdFusion. Two or three different methods are noted, one of which involves mapping the file to the CF Administrator.
Including a File with a Physical Address

 

(CF-Talk) Two Threads on CFCs: "Using THIS Scope in CFCs" and "Properties in CFCs: Here is the Use"

Wow! Two great discussions here covering what can be done with CFCs, uses of the different variable types within them, and the use of the CFProperty tag. Together, these are almost a CFC tutorial.
Using This Scope in CFCs
Properties in CFCs: Here is the use (Was RE: Using THIS scope in CFCs)

 

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