Best of Talk (5/13/04)

 
May 15, 2004
By Dina Hess

Title: Challenge/Response and IIS Security
Date: 05/13/04      (24 Posts)
Summary: Need to prevent an NT/IIS web server from requiring challenge/response authentication for anonymous users? "For anonymous access to work, the IUSR_MACHINENAME account must have execute permissions to CF files and it must have execute permissions to the CF ISAPI extension."
 
Title: Dynamic Generate Page Content Without Refresh Page
Date: 05/13/04      (1 Post)
Summary: See the article at DepressedPress for techniques, such as the use of a GIF data pipe, to regenerate page content without refreshing the page.
 
Title: Writing UTF-8 files with CF
Date: 05/13/04      (6 Posts)
Summary: Here's an excellent explanation of the type of encoding that occurs when CFMX reads and converts a template file or processes and converts a browser response. You'll find detailed information about how to ensure correct encoding. This thread is a definite "must-read."
 
Title: Huge Dropdown List of Names...Type in Name as Well as Selecting It???
Date: 05/13/04      (27 Posts)
Summary: How would you create a SELECT that highlights options based on user input? Find many resources...such as the link to a working online example, step-by-step instructions with the complete code solution, code for a data dictionary lookup, the BetterSelect custom tag from Macromedia's ColdFusion Developers Exchange, and a UDF. This one's packed!
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Title: <no subject>
Date: 05/13/04      (4 Posts)
Summary: What's the standard way to deal with users who click the back button after a shopping cart transaction is complete and cookie/session variables have been cleared? "On the previous page, check to see if the variables exist, and if they don't, forward [users] to the 'continue shopping' destination."
 

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