CFLOCATION

Hi,
I am using cflocation to redirect to a page after doing
process on server side like database updates, some time the page is
redirecting properly and the content of the new page also
displaying, and some times it is redirecting to a new page but the
content is not displaying..if i refresh the browser then content is
display.
Wondering if any one come across this type of situation.
Looking for your suggestions in fixing this issue.
Thanks in advance
-Raaga

Not sure if this is your problem, but CFLOCATION has a
history. For example, CFLOCATION used after a CFCOOKIE call used to
forward without executing the CFCOOKIE. I haven't used CFLOCATION
since then. Instead I use JavaScript to forward since that will not
run until CF is finished executing.
<CF CODE>
<script>
location.href='updated_page.cfm';
</script>

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Thanks for the response! I've checked all the rules and files. All is good.
It looks to me that everything is working but the cflocation. If I manually go to the page the cflocation was being redirected to all of the code executed before the cflocation has been executed (logging the user in).
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An other thoughts? Thanks again!

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On previous versions use urlEncodedFormat():
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Hi,
Trying to troubleshoot an annoying issue and wondering if
anyone has had any experience with this - haven't had much luck
Googling for info. Using up-to-date CF 6.1 and current version of
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Replace
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using cflocation plus url variables, is build in a way that some
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Does cflocation cancel sessions
Yes,
cflocation
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Like in FireFox
Tools/Options/Tabs
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G'day
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The blog entry is here:
http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2221-CFAbort-And-OnRequestEnd-Behavior-In-ColdFusion-8-And-Co ldFusion-9.htm
The short version is that prior to CF9, CFABORT meant "abort processing". In CF9, it now only kinda aborts processing, as whilst it halts "mainline" code from running, it still executes onRequestEnd().
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Adam

That is indeed ridiculous, I've added my vote.

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Not in the application CFC.
But there is a great place to put code like that in most web server configurations.
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Hey all,
I have Coldfusion 9.0 running on a Windows Server 2008 R2. I recently installed the APSB12-06 security update (yes, I followed the right set of instructions specific to my installation). Since then, one of the automatic services we have in our web application fails to work on some systems, mainly users running Internet Explorer. We have an automated email that goes out to users to review artwork. They click on the link in this email, which sends them to a page to review their artwork. However, there is an intermediate step between, where it automatically logs in the user in before sending them to the artwork review page. It logs the user in, sets session variables, and then uses cflocation to send them to a artwork review page, including URL variables:
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This didn't seem to fix the problem. I'm completely stumped here...And the boss isn't liking the fact that I can't figure it out! But the only thing in our system that has changed was the installation of the security patch...Does anyone have any ideas? Any information would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thank you!

Hey all,
I have Coldfusion 9.0 running on a Windows Server 2008 R2. I recently installed the APSB12-06 security update (yes, I followed the right set of instructions specific to my installation). Since then, one of the automatic services we have in our web application fails to work on some systems, mainly users running Internet Explorer. We have an automated email that goes out to users to review artwork. They click on the link in this email, which sends them to a page to review their artwork. However, there is an intermediate step between, where it automatically logs in the user in before sending them to the artwork review page. It logs the user in, sets session variables, and then uses cflocation to send them to a artwork review page, including URL variables:
<cflocation url="dspReviewArtProof.cfm?OLID=#URL.OLID#&IID=#URL.IID#" addtoken="no">
The execution goes like this: link in email -> dspMyAccount.cfm (logs them in, sets the cflocation tag) -> dspReviewArtProof.cfm. The above code is located on the intemediate dspMyAccount.cfm page.
In the past, this has ALWAYS worked. But now, since the installation of the security fix, some users get caught in this endless loop of the system trying to log them in, even after they successfully log in. So, I put a snippet of code that will pull the current URL on the dspMyAccount.cfm page, as well as the URL on the dspReviewArtProof.cfm page, so I can see the before and after URL as it is passed from page to page. What I've found is that when some users reach the dspReviewArtProof page, their URL looks like this:
http://www.thesite.com/dspReviewArtProof.cfm?
When it should look like:
http://www.thesite.com/dspReviewArtProof.cfm?OLID=1234&IID=12345
It looks like the variables are getting cut off for some reason. The URL, when it reaches the dspMyAccount.cfm page, is ALWAYS correct. It isn't until it reaches the dspReviewArtProof.cfm that it looses the URL variables (after the cflocation tag). I thought maybe it was a problem with cflocation, so I replaced that tag with the cfheader tag, setting the status code to 302:
<cfheader statuscode="302" statustext="Object Temporarily Moved" />
<cfheader name="location" value="dspReviewArtProof.cfm?OLID=#URL.OLID#&IID=#URL.IID#" />
This didn't seem to fix the problem. I'm completely stumped here...And the boss isn't liking the fact that I can't figure it out! But the only thing in our system that has changed was the installation of the security patch...Does anyone have any ideas? Any information would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thank you!

Cflocation issue

Hello all,
We have a problem using cflocation when trying to redirect
the user to a new cf page.
There is a file a.cfm contains an html form. Its action file
is b.cfm. In b.cfm, after processing the data received from a.cfm
the cflocation tag is used to redirect the user to c.cfm file. It
appears that from time to time, the execution is aborted before
redirecting the user to the c.cfm file.
No cookie is set up, no cfflush tag is used on the same page
as the cflocation tag is used.
We also tried to use in place of cflocation, the cfheader tag
like:
<cfheader statuscode="301" statustext="Moved
Permanently">
<cfheader name="Location" value="c.cfm">
<cfabort>
But we got the same acting.
In place, using the http refresh meta, seems to work.
Webserver: IIS on win 2003
Coldfusion: v. 7
Has anyone faced the same problem before?
Thanks,
Razvan Droscaru

can you post your b.cfm code? it seems like there may be a
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Just after posting this I managed to find some sort of resolution to the problem, but it does concern me that this issue could be on other sites now. I found a link that suggested if a session was set and the cflocation was used all within one page then problems with variables could occur
http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/missing-session-variables-using-cflocation.html
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