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dkips
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July 11, 2010
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Coldfusion server problem or programming problem?

  • July 11, 2010
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Hello experts,

I have been experiencing problems when accessing this website using Mac (and Parallels/WinXP).

http://tinyurl.com/3yh3d8l

Because there is no problem when using Windows PC, the programmer suggested that it might be a CF server problem, but one of my IT said it's programming issue (basically he said the web programmer is wrong). I have very limited access to PC at work but I need the data from that website. I'd like to give input to the webprogrammer but I don't know what to say. Could you please give me some suggestions? Thank you.

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    Adam Cameron.
    Inspiring
    July 12, 2010

    It sounds to me that the "programmer" is just blame-shifting. As well as being a bit ignorant.

    CF never communicates with the client PC, so doesn't know (or care) what OS the client is using. The closest it gets to this is that the web server passes a CGI variable to CF which contains the user agent string, so CF can know what the web browser might be.

    On the other hand and JS being run could behave differently from browser to browser (not OS to OS, but the browsers tend to be different from OS to OS).

    Have you tested on different browsers on the Mac, or just with Safari?

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    dkipsAuthor
    Participant
    July 12, 2010

    hi Adam,

    Just tested in Mac, the site works in FireFox. But Safari won't load it at all. Progress bar keep spinning but screen doesn't change.

    So is this something to do with the programming problem or Safari is being picky? I can use FireFox during presentation but I'd like the option to be able to use Safari (iPad?).

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    dkipsAuthor
    Participant
    July 12, 2010

    Ok scratch that, it worked in FireFox for the first time but when I tried again, it wont load the page and I had to restart the Mac. After restart the website loads although very slow in the beginning. But after playing around with other website and comeback to that one, it won't load again. Confused.

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    yui8979
    Inspiring
    July 12, 2010

    Okay, the word "problem" and "experiencing problems" is very

    ambiguous. You need to describe what kind of problems. If you can't

    begin to describe your problem, then no one here can help you with it.

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    dkipsAuthor
    Participant
    July 12, 2010

    Hi yui, when I choose the school district in the pulldown, the website is very slow when using Mac, and sometimes it does't show any result at all but in PC it was very quick. Do you have any idea why?

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    Dan_Bracuk
    Inspiring
    July 12, 2010

    The part where I pressed the Compare button and it crashed was a programming error.

    As far as what you described, my observations are that when I select a school district, the form submits and eventually some content appears.  My interpretation is that it's neither a programming problem nor a web server problem.  I think the problem is either with the Mac, or the network connection to which it's attached.

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