Coldfusion 9 CFFTP Tag

Hi, hope somebody can help!
I'm running an evaluation on the new Coldfusion 9 and trying to use the <CFFTP> tag to connect to a remote SFTP server. The server version is:-
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-8ubuntu1.2
My Code is:-
<cfftp action = "open"
username = "myusername"
connection = "MyConnection"
password = "mypassword"
server = "myserver.com"
secure = "yes">
<p>Successful: <cfoutput>#cfftp.succeeded#</cfoutput>
<cfdump var ="#MyConnection#" label="connection">
This is what is returned:-
An error occurred while establishing an sFTP connection.
Verify your connection attributes: username, password, server, fingerprint, port, key, connection, proxyServer, and secure (as applicable). Error: Session.connect: java.io.IOException: invalid data.
The error occurred in /Applications/ColdFusion9/wwwroot/test/sftp.cfm: line 12
10 :
11 : server = "10.1.3.43"
12 : secure = "yes">
13 :
14 : <p>Successful: <cfoutput>#cfftp.succeeded#</cfoutput>
Resources:
Check the ColdFusion documentation to verify that you are using the correct syntax.
Search the Knowledge Base to find a solution to your problem.
Browser
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_1; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.0
Remote Address
0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0
Referrer
Date/Time
13-Oct-09 11:32 PM
Stack Trace
at cfsftp2ecfm1948882534.runPage(/Applications/ColdFusion9/wwwroot/test/sftp.cfm:12) at cfsftp2ecfm1948882534.runPage(/Applications/ColdFusion9/wwwroot/test/sftp.cfm:12)
com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: Session.connect: java.io.IOException: invalid data
     at com.jcraft.jsch.Session.connect(Unknown Source)
     at com.jcraft.jsch.Session.connect(Unknown Source)
     at coldfusion.tagext.net.SftpHandler.getConnection(SftpHandler.java:265)
     at coldfusion.tagext.net.SftpHandler.createConnection(SftpHandler.java:76)
     at coldfusion.tagext.net.FtpTag.doStartTag(FtpTag.java:675)
     at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._emptyTcfTag(CfJspPage.java:2722)
     at cfsftp2ecfm1948882534.runPage(/Applications/ColdFusion9/wwwroot/test/sftp.cfm:12)
     at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:231)
     at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:416)
     at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65)
     at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:363)
     at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:48)
     at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40)
     at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:87)
     at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70)
     at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28)
     at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)
     at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46)
     at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)
     at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)
     at coldfusion.filter.CachingFilter.invoke(CachingFilter.java:53)
     at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:200)
     at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89)
     at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86)
     at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42)
     at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46)
     at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94)
     at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101)
     at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106)
     at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42)
     at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286)
     at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543)
     at jrun.servlet.http.WebService.invokeRunnable(WebService.java:172)
     at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:320)
     at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428)
     at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:266)
     at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)
I've tried running this from both a Mac and Windows platform.
Incidentally, I also took the example from the Adobe Coldfusion 9 live docs and got the same error.
If I can't get this to work then it's a show stopper for the use of CF within our environment.
Best Regards,
Carl Bourne
Message was edited by: CarlB Just tried using the above to connect to a SSH (SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.2) server running on MAC OSX. I got the same error.

That did not fix my problem specifically, but it is related, and it gave me enough insight to find a work-around without changing jar files.
It seems that ColdFusion loads "com.rsa.jsafe.provider.JsafeJCE" as the default security provider at startup. Perhaps there is something wrong with this provider like the “BC” provider mentioned in your link. Working with that, I was able to dump my providers into an array where the first array position represents the default provider and shows JsafeJCE as the default:
<cfset providerMethods = CreateObject('java','java.security.Security')>
You can dump the providers:
<cfdump var="#providerMethods.getProviders()#">
I then made a copy of the provider like:
<cfset jSafeProvider = providerMethods.getProvider('JsafeJCE')>
I then removed it from the provider array:
<cfset providerMethods.removeProvider('JsafeJCE')>
I then made my sFTP call and this time it was successful.
<cfftp action="open"
secure="true”…
I then put the provider back into the array in position 1 – the default:
<cfset providerMethods.insertProviderAt(jSafeProvider,1)>
I can’t say I know exactly what’s wrong and I certainly don’t want to remove the JsafeJCE provider from the default position for forever. I’ll let Adobe come up with a true fix, but for now, this provides me with a work-around so I can use sFTP. I’m sure JsageJCE is used/required for some other encryption, so you’ll have to watch for other issues while it’s not part of the provider array. The quicker you can get it out/in, probably the better. My sFTP only runs a few times, so I feel OK with the possible side effects. Maybe someone can take it from here and find a better solution and not a simple work-around.

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HTML See HyperText Markup Language.
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XML See Extensible Markup Language.
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Thanks for posting this!
I would only mention that your definition is incomplete for this -
Contextual selector A type of Style Sheet Selector that
and that it's most often referred to now as a Descendent selector, not a contextual selector. It's basically the same as the Compound selector that you have already defined....

How can I upload an .jpg file to server from browser?

Hi!
I am trying to create a webpage whereby myself or any one of my managers can easily create an e-mail & send to our client database. I would like to be able to upload an image to be included with the email, which I have been trying to do using <cffile>, but I get an error message:
Security: The requested template has been denied access to http:\***MY WEB ADDRESS****.
I'm assuming that this is an issue with my hosting server, but I fail to see a way round it as I cannot add ftp login data to a <cffile> tag.
I have also tried to do the same thing with <cfftp> tag including the ftp login data, but this returns an error whereby the website cannot access the file from my hard drive.
Does anyone have a solution?

What does your code look like? Something like this?
<cfif isDefined("form.image") >
    <cffile action = "upload"
        fileField = "image"
        destination = "c:\uploads\images"
        accept = "image/jpg,image/pjpeg,image/jpeg"
        nameConflict = "MakeUnique">
        Done uploading image!

<cfelse>
    <cfform method="post" action="#cgi.script_name#"
        name="uploadForm" enctype="multipart/form-data">
        <cfinput name="image" type="file">
        <br><br>
        <cfinput name="submit" type="submit" value="Upload image">
    </cfform>
</cfif>

How to Password Protect a Directory so all Files are Protected?

Hello CFers and Happy Holidays,
I am moving a web site over from a Linux server over to a
Windows 2000 server. The site was currently password protected via
the oh so familiar .htaccess method on the Linux server. Now that
the site is on IIS on Windows, the .htaccess files don't work.
I have created a MSSQL database with a users table that
contains all of the username and passwords that are allowed to
access the site.
Normally I would just log users in by querying the database,
setting a session variable, and then using application.cfm to check
to make sure the users is logged in. However, in this particualr
site, most of the files are made up of .htm files which do not get
processed by the ColdFusion application.cfm tag.
Several posts indicated that I would need to disable
anonymous access within IIS and then create the individual user
accounts within Administrative Tools > Computer Management >
Users and Groups. However, in this case, I don't want to create
thousands of new users within windows.
Is there a way for me to password protect all files within a
directory while still using the accounts set up in my MSSQL
database for authentication?
Thanks,
David Levin

> Several posts indicated that I would need to disable
anonymous access within
> IIS and then create the individual user accounts within
Administrative Tools >
> Computer Management > Users and Groups. However, in
this case, I don't want to
> create thousands of new users within windows.
How many users did you have in your .htaccess config? That's
how many
you'd need to set up in IIS. With IIS & file system
permissions you're
effecting the same thing you would with Apache's .htaccess
authorisation.
Except using GUI tools rather than text files; it's the same
principle,
though.
Or... you could just install Apache and use that instead,
sticking with the
approach you're used to.
Adam

Dreamweaver templates and relative file paths

It seems on occasion - especially with the embed tag - a
relative file path in the dwt file becomes an absolute file path in
the file it makes. The worst thing is that it doesnt happen
consistently, Ive created 4 files from a template and now all of a
sudden when i make a new one the path doesnt update. I'm also using
coldfusion with these tags which could be the problem. Either way I
dont want to have to reedit every page with notepad. Heres my code
template code:
<object
classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
width="730" height="295" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<cfoutput>#IEcat#</cfoutput>
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<cfoutput><embed
src="../new/flash/navigation6a.swf#cat#" quality="high"
bgcolor="##ffffff" width="730" height="295" align="middle"
allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
/> </cfoutput>
</object>
code rendered from template:
<object
classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
width="730" height="295" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<cfoutput>#IEcat#</cfoutput>
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<cfoutput><embed
src="file:///D|/KMI%20websites/centerplate.ca/site/new/flash/navigation6a.swf#cat#"
quality="high" bgcolor="##ffffff" width="730" height="295"
align="middle" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
/> </cfoutput>
</object>
on a side note, in the object param tag when using the output
tags inside the quotation marks of the value it turns all non
alphanumeric characters into ascii
any help on either problem will be much appreciated

Whe you spawn the child page from the template, you will see
ALL of the
links look like that until you save the page. Once you save
it, DW knows
how to adjust the links so that they remain relative to the
saved document.
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"ogre11" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> It seems on occasion - especially with the embed tag - a
relative file
> path in
> the dwt file becomes an absolute file path in the file
it makes. The
> worst
> thing is that it doesnt happen consistently, Ive created
4 files from a
> template and now all of a sudden when i make a new one
the path doesnt
> update.
> I'm also using coldfusion with these tags which could be
the problem.
> Either
> way I dont want to have to reedit every page with
notepad. Heres my code
>
> template code:
>
> <object
classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#
> version=7,0,0,0" width="730" height="295"
align="middle">
> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"
/>
> <cfoutput>#IEcat#</cfoutput>
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
> <cfoutput><embed
src="../new/flash/navigation6a.swf#cat#"
> quality="high"
> bgcolor="##ffffff" width="730" height="295"
align="middle"
> allowscriptaccess="sameDomain"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
> pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
/> </cfoutput>
> </object>
>
> code rendered from template:
>
> <object
classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#
> version=7,0,0,0" width="730" height="295"
align="middle">
> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"
/>
> <cfoutput>#IEcat#</cfoutput>
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
> <cfoutput><embed
>
src="file:///D|/KMI%20websites/centerplate.ca/site/new/flash/navigation6a.swf#ca
> t#" quality="high" bgcolor="##ffffff" width="730"
height="295"
> align="middle"
> allowscriptaccess="sameDomain"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
> pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
/> </cfoutput>
> </object>
>
> on a side note, in the object param tag when using the
output tags inside
> the
> quotation marks of the value it turns all non
alphanumeric characters into
> ascii
>
> any help on either problem will be much appreciated
>

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