Need your opinion about <cfcontent>

Report · Jan 19, 2009

Hello to All!!!
I'm trying to make my FIRST site.
I've red: http://tutorial99.easycfm.com
I need your opinion (if possible,opinion from people with experience, who's made more then one site) about method, which discussed in this tutorial.

1)Is it a GOOD method now (tutorial has written in 2003)?
Would this method be resource-intensive for server if I'm going to use it in Image gallery site, so i'm going to use it at ALL my <img> tags?

2) Does this method reduce upload time of a web page?

3) From CFML reference I've known, that <cfcontent> can be restricted by CFserver. So, do you now, do Hosters, who's recommended on this site, apply restrictions to <cfcontent>, which can except using this method?

Thanks for your answers! And sorry for my english Smile

Report · Jan 21, 2009

Yes this method is quite good for preventing hot linking of your images using CF only but usually people stop this by doing it right on the server itself. Not sure how to do that but it is possible, and I imagine quicker.

Upload time of a web page? Not sure what you mean. But if you're on about performance then I assume it wouldn't be that much overhead. Probably not even noticeable.

CFCONTENT is can be restrictred like any other tag on the CFSERVER I think but shared hosts generally don't do this...at least I've never come across one. Should be fine to use. People usually disable potentially dangerous tags like CFEXECUTE.

Good luck,
Mikey.

Report · Jan 21, 2009

Yes this method is quite good for preventing hot linking of your images using CF only but usually people stop this by doing it right on the server itself. Not sure how to do that but it is possible, and I imagine quicker.

Upload time of a web page? Not sure what you mean. But if you're on about performance then I assume it wouldn't be that much overhead. Probably not even noticeable.

CFCONTENT is can be restrictred like any other tag on the CFSERVER I think but shared hosts generally don't do this...at least I've never come across one. Should be fine to use. People usually disable potentially dangerous tags like CFEXECUTE.

Good luck,
Mikey.