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• Maintaining ColdFusion Sessions Across SMS Text Message Requests Without Cookies

  Posted on Nov 24, 2009 at 9:33 AM

  I tried adding the addtoken attribute to my cfhttp call and it didn't do the trick. I'm also wondering what its supposed to do. I tried... read more »

• Maintaining ColdFusion Sessions Across SMS Text Message Requests Without Cookies

  Posted on Nov 20, 2009 at 4:12 PM

  @Todd: Yes, I think that's exactly what's happening. Using Ben's example above I log the value of cookie.cfid right after I set it and it is inded the value I set. In index.cfm I log cookie.cfid and it is indeed different.... read more »

• Maintaining ColdFusion Sessions Across SMS Text Message Requests Without Cookies

  Posted on Nov 20, 2009 at 4:02 PM

  @ben yes, that's exactly what I am saying... read more »

• Maintaining ColdFusion Sessions Across SMS Text Message Requests Without Cookies

  Posted on Nov 20, 2009 at 4:00 PM

  No, Ben has accomplished exactly what I am attempting to do on Railo (and have successfully done on CF8). Ben's example uses textmarks which I'll assume posts incoming sms messages to a CF url Ben specified. Attached to that url is a unique ID (probably phone number). As I understand it, Ben is u... read more »

• Maintaining ColdFusion Sessions Across SMS Text Message Requests Without Cookies

  Posted on Nov 20, 2009 at 1:28 PM

  Yeah, works fine when running the above in a browser (hitting index.cfm?id=12345), but fails to maintain the session when I do a cfhttp get to the page.... read more »

• Maintaining ColdFusion Sessions Across SMS Text Message Requests Without Cookies

  Posted on Nov 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM

  Great hack. This doesn't seem to work on Railo though. The session doesn't stick across requests. Anyone have any suggestions?... read more »

• Using CFPOP And CFMAIL For Bidirectional SMS Text Messaging In ColdFusion

  Posted on Nov 28, 2007 at 12:02 PM

  Don't even get me started. Very lame. Your right, the carriers will charge the recipient to receive the message according to their data plan, so I'm not sure what the issue is. I've come to the conclusion that in order to build any real system that relies heavily on SMS, you need a short c... read more »

• Using CFPOP And CFMAIL For Bidirectional SMS Text Messaging In ColdFusion

  Posted on Nov 28, 2007 at 11:35 AM

  This is one way to accomplish two-way SMS messaging without a shortcode, but I've heard stories about carriers blocking gateway access if your sending/receiving too much traffic. So I'm not sure I'd build any real sms apps with this approach. Anybody out there using carrier email gateway's... read more »

• Creating Transparent Images With ColdFusion 8 And ImageNew()

  Posted on Nov 19, 2007 at 9:25 AM

  Just wondering in what scenario you'd want to generate a transparent image on the fly? Can't think of anything off the top of my head. Either way, thanks for another great tutorial!... read more »

• FLV 404 Error On Windows 2003 Server

  Posted on Jul 26, 2007 at 12:34 PM

  I've been bit by this little nuance as well.... read more »