February 15, 2019
I see this issue catch a lot of people, and it got me today. If you have a file /api/test.cfm on ColdFusion 10 or greater it might not work due to ColdFusion's REST implementation controlling the /api or /rest URIs....
February 14, 2019
Adobe released new security updates and bug fixes for ColdFusion 11, 2016 and 2018 this week. Normally these things go pretty smooth and any issue introduced by an update is typically minimal, but I can't say that has been the case for this update....
February 6, 2019
I observed an interesting thing today while helping a client. The problem was presented as:
We have a bunch of Chrome users having issues where a session variable is not working between page requests....
February 6, 2019
When you are using csrfGenerateToken and csrfVerifyToken with unique categories, the token that is generated remains valid until another token is generated with the forceNew argument set to true....
February 1, 2019
This is not exactly a new trick, but it is quite useful and I find not many people know that the cf_sql_ prefix is optional in the cfsqltype attribute of cfqueryparam. So instead of doing this:
WHERE id = <cfqueryparam value="#url....
January 24, 2019
Have you ever noticed a cookie in Chrome Developer Tools showing a Expires / Max-Age value of 1969-12-31T23:59:59.000Z?
Such a cookie is known as a browser session cookie it will persist for as long as the browser is open....
December 7, 2018
One nice feature of AWS API Gateway is that you can configure or Throttle the Burst (requests) and Rate (requests per second). The first time I looked at that it was not really clear to me how the Burst (requests) throttling works....
November 21, 2018
TLDR: Most java HTTPS connection problems can be fixed by updating the JVM. Don't import into cacerts unless you really need to (eg you have an internal CA within your organization). Test other http clients to make sure it is really a java problem....
September 13, 2018
I ran into some issues getting the Lucee Tomcat 8.5 service to start on with Java 10.0.2 on a Windows 2016 Server....
May 14, 2018
SameSite cookies are a great technique for mitigating Cross Site Request Forgery attacks. The only downside is that not all browsers support them yet (ahem... looking at you IE)....
April 5, 2018
Looking at the Facebook Developer API documentation yesterday, I noticed a subtle change in the permissions that they give to developers without review on the graph API....
January 18, 2018
When attempting to fire up a bunch of docker containers using docker-compose on a Mac, one of the containers was randomly exiting with the exit code 137....
Pete Freitag