After a recent upgrade of ColdFusion 2016 to ColdFusion 2021 on one of the Linux servers, we noticed strange behavior. The CFHTTP call was sometimes working fine, and sometimes it…
Tag: ColdFusion
It is not that often to work with XML nowadays (at least – for our clients), but we have such a task from time to time. Today, I was asked…
You may encounter this error in ColdFusion when working with MySQL. It is rather strange: First, let’s talk about the solution. This error occurs due to the MySQL Connector version…
If you still happen to use ColdFusion 2016 and you want to connect it to MySQL 8 (or MariaDB 10), you will receive the following error: It is not telling…
In order to secure assets such as scripts, styles, media on the site, the Content-Security-Policy header is used. It is handy to mitigate data injection attacks and XSS attacks among…
I’m working on the old code right now and I try to perform some performance adjustments. The majority of work now relies on the identification of weak points and places…
It is frustrating – you are trying to send some form data, and instead of the original text, you got the contents with some HTML tags replaced with InvalidTag. For…
This issue is not exclusive to TestBox, but it occurred in my environment when I started configuring tests in this framework. ColdFusion has not had that many testing frameworks, so…
Some of the websites we are taking care of are old. By old, I mean the websites written over ten years ago. It is not easy to migrate them to…
I was surprised when suddenly I started receiving errors like this: “No matching function [ENCODEFORHTML] found”? What happened? I was sure that this was working before! The “EncodeForHTML” function is…