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Thanks to Charlie's blog and Pete's tweet, we have another hidden gem in ColdFusion (2018 release).
ColdFusion (2018 release) imports environment variables into the server scope.
For instance,
<cfscript>
writeDump(server.system.environment)
</cfscript>
The snippet above returns a struct that contains environment variables.
ColdFusion (2018 release) also imports Java system properties.
For instance,
<cfscript>
writeDump(server.system.properties)
</cfscript>
The snippet above returns a struct that contains Java system properties.
Pete has also documented these scopes in the cfdocs site.
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