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fwood
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November 6, 2013
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Cold Fusion Site Not Even Requested?

  • November 6, 2013
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Hello,

  I am a web developer, but I do not use Cold Fusion, so I come to the experts on this one. I have a client that wanted me to review a website and I cannot get the page to even attempt a load. It literally has nothing but a blank page and refreshing resolves too quick to actually be fetching the site. I saw the site load in his browser on the smart phone, so I know it loads for him.

  I used a webpage analyzer on it, so that is the only way I know it is in CF. It was able to fetch pages and URLS.

  Has anyone seen this sort of behavior? If so, what causes it? I have used FF, Chrome and IE. One time, out of all the times it gave me a cert warning, but when proceeding again.. blank page.

Thanks for your help. 

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    Aegis_Kleais
    Inspiring
    November 6, 2013

    First, let me just say it's 'ColdFusion' (one word, vs. two)

    If you're using Chrome, press F12 and check the Network tab, what HTTP status code comes back from the request?  I'm intrigued to figure out how a web page analyzer knows a page is ColdFusion.  Unless you can see the actual filetype in the URL, the data that is returned by the server usually doesn't indicate the application server language.  It's one thing if the code is generating links to the CFIDE directory, but I'd be interested in knowing how this analyzer "knows".

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    fwoodAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    November 6, 2013

    Noted on the ColdFusion separation mistake :-)

    The web anayalzer brought back files with the externsions .cfm, that does mean ColdFusion, correct? I haven't encountered anything in my PHP world like that.

    F12 network 1 requests  ❘  177 B transferred  ❘  104 ms (load: 148 ms, DOMContentLoaded: 148 ms)

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    Aegis_Kleais
    Inspiring
    November 6, 2013

    Well, .cfm means the file is CFML.  It's hard to explain, but think of ColdFusion as a Product that processes CFM/CFML.  There are open source solutions out there like Blue Dragon and Railo which can process .cfm/.cfml files, but it doesn't necessarily mean they are using the Adobe ColdFusion product.

    Let's say I called: http://localhost/mypage.cfm

    On the NETWORK tab, you'll see a NAME column (probably says 'mypage.cfm') and a STATUS column.  I would like to know the value returned in your STATUS column, to ensure it returned a 200 or 304 (cached) response.  Anything in the 4xx or 5xx indicates an error.

    As for the initial page load coming up for him but not you, there could be a myriad of reasons why.  Obviously, you are operating in 2 different environments, but for an example, the server he's running off of could be requiring some form of authentication, and if not provided, aborts the request (white page or browser error page usually returned).

    Knowing the status of your request will tell us if the server is replying to the request or encountering an error and preventing it from fulfilling the request.

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