Bob Hendren

Recent Blog Comments By Bob Hendren

• Explicitly Ending A ColdFusion Session

  Posted on Apr 20, 2012 at 11:09 AM

  I never dealt with Application.cfc before because my main application's code base is 10 years old now! (That's what happens when you're the only Geek on staff!) I'm launching a separate project and need some of the modern features that the CFC approach provides. As usual, a couple of articles fro... read more »

• The Same CFID-CFTOKEN Values Are Used Across ColdFusion Session Timeouts

  Posted on Feb 5, 2010 at 5:34 AM

  Well, what it came down to ended up being to just go back and strip out all of the URLSessionFormat() links. A bit of a pain, but... It was definitely better going into the future to be able to allow search engine spidering. Those users without cookies can still use most of the application withou... read more »

• The Same CFID-CFTOKEN Values Are Used Across ColdFusion Session Timeouts

  Posted on Feb 3, 2010 at 7:13 AM

  By the way, I've seen mention of using two different CFAPPLICATION declarations, but haven't explored it fully. Sounds good, but what's going to short-circuit that way? Are all of my URLSessionFormat-ed link going to die if I turn off session management for robots?... read more »

• The Same CFID-CFTOKEN Values Are Used Across ColdFusion Session Timeouts

  Posted on Feb 3, 2010 at 7:02 AM

  I'm at an odd crossroad here. Up until now, I've kept my application off-limits to search engines. I've used a couple your techniques for giving them short sessions and such. Been working well. With respect to human users, I've been VERY diligent about using URLSessionFormat to keep session vari... read more »