Scenario: Attempting to download and parse an XML feed using CFHTTP Get request. The url is not SSL enabled and uses IIS. Problem: A StatusCode of 200 OK is returned but the FileContents returns Connection Failure. Analysis: The header response contains the following header: IISExport: This web site was exported using IIS Export [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Magento: Adventures in creating a custom design
Let me start off by saying, Magento is an EXTREMELY powerful and well built ecommerce platform. It contains all of the features necessary to deliver a stable and scalable solution for ecommerce (and more). That being said, I do have a few issues. So far, I find the system quite slow. Maybe it is just [...]
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MySQL 5 timestamp error in ColdFusion 8
Scenario: Query grabs user data from MySQL 5 database using the built in MySQL 4/5 driver in ColdFusion 8 on a Windows 2003 Server. Problem: Cannot convert value ’0000-00-00 00:00:00′ from column 10 to TIMESTAMP error returned on execution. Analysis: After a quick search on Google, it appears that the default behaviour for [...]
HostMySite security breach Redux
After calming down a bit and speaking to my friend about the HostMySite security issue I think I will show a bit more patience with HMS on this issue. The reason being (and this is a big stretch for forgiveness!) HMS offers budget hosting for ColdFusion sites. At US $19.95 per month it is cheap for [...]
HostMySite security breach
I recently posted an article about a security breach on my web server which was as a result of my own stupidity but when a site that I manage and host on HostMySite.com is breached twice in 4 days I get extremely peeved. The incident occurred on their ColdFusion shared hosting plan and an attacker [...]
