http://enfinitystudios.thaposse.net/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:58:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a quick and dirty solution for the issue described in: ColdFusion 8 Exception Handling Breaks HTTP Requests. <cffunction name="onError" access="public" returntype="void" output="false">  <cfargument name="exception" type="any" required="true">  <cfargument name="eventname" type="string" required="false">    <cfset var error = getMetaData(exception)>  <cfset var message = left(reReplace(reReplace(exception.message,"\r|\n"," ","all"),"\s\s+"," ","all"),500)>  <cfset var msg = "">    <cfloop condition="true">  <cfif not isDefined("error") or error.getName() eq "coldfusion.runtime.NeoException">  <cfbreak>  </cfif>  <cfset error ... http://enfinitystudios.thaposse.net/blog/2007/08/01/fix-for-coldfusion-8-broken-exception-http-response/ Just found this bug today.... So CF8 outputs the cfcatch.message into the Reason-Phrase portion of the HTTP Response, however it does not strip new lines (LF or CR). A web server, however, should never send new lines in the Reason-Phrase [1], and should probably be truncating that error message ... http://enfinitystudios.thaposse.net/blog/2007/08/01/coldfusion-8-exception-handling-breaks-http-requests/ While working on the template system used for the conference websites I ran across a problem where I needed the path to the template that called a custom tag. The first thing I tried was getCurrentTemplatePath() thinking that it might return that since the documentation makes no mention of custom ... http://enfinitystudios.thaposse.net/blog/2007/07/17/getting-the-expected-results-for-getcurrenttemplatepath-in-a-custom-tag/ With the recent launch of Apollo Beta I thought I'd look into Flex again for some fun and decided I'd write plist api so that Apollo applications could read and modify OS X plists in a sane maner. PList XML is particularly problematic because of how its structured: ... http://enfinitystudios.thaposse.net/blog/2007/03/25/actionsctipt-30-array-access-woes/ While doing some casual web surfing I came across a rather interesting blog entry about Ruby's types and looping. I started typing a reply, and then I realized it was really long, so I'm putting it here: One reason I think methods like this are great is that Ruby is intended ... http://enfinitystudios.thaposse.net/blog/2007/02/26/i-object/