my web site generate the links dynamically and after some period of time the links will be expired and will be no more valid.
I redirect such links to a static page with a statuscode 301 which for google only means that the old link should be replace with this new link.
But what I want is that I should be able to set the statuscode to 410 and should be able to redirect the page to my static page so that the search engine should remove such links from their indexes.
The problem I am facing is that by setting header like
<cfheader statuscode="410" statustext="Gone">
<cfheader name="Location" value="/removed.cfm">
<cfabort>
the browser does't redirct to new location.
Status 410 is not a redirect. It is more similar to a 404 than a 301/302. Use status 301 for a permanent redirect, and Google should recognize that the old page has been replaced, and browsers will redirect.
Think cflocation with statusCode is what you want. From manual:
<cflocation
url = "URL"
addToken = "yes|no"
statusCode = "300|301|302|303|304|305|307" />
I'm not sure if it work with code 410, but I would agree with Ben that 301 sounds better here.
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I have a serious problem with jsessionid that is automatically pasted into my url. This extra value looks like this:
;jsessionid=5046392DAA8687BE348FB51B57B69DB3.cfusion
This is pasted into my url causing Page Not found error because it is pasted in the middle of url like this:
https://mycompany.com;jsessionid=5046392DAA8687BE348FB51B57B69DB3.cfusion/index.cfm?p=home&home=current
But this is only happening when I open the link in IE (mine is IE 11).
When I open it in FireFox or Chrome I don't get this problem. It normally shows up as:
https://mycompany.com/index.cfm?p=home&home=current
My link looks like this:
<a id="#url.home#" href="index.cfm?p=home&home=current" target="iframe_main">HOME</a>
But at home.cfm On top of the page I have:
<CFIF IsDefined("session.usergroup") AND session.usergroup EQ 0>
<CFLOCATION url="/index.cfm?p=home&form=current&loginerr=Your session is expired. Please re-login again">
<CFELSE>
show the page
</CFIF>
I tried using AddToken = "NO" attribute in the CFLOCATION. This will eliminate my problem in IE BUT I get a new problem. My session does not work!!
My Dep is switching to ColdFusion2016 and I'm working on this in CF2016.
Is there a way to fix this issue? please help, thank you!
I am trying to get connected to smarter stats website by by passing the login window and load the statistics in a fancybox page
so far this is my code: but that does not seems to be working
<cfhttp method="post" url="https://stats.ezhostingserver.com/" resolveurl="true" redirect="true">
<cfhttpparam type="FORMFIELD" name="ctl00$MPH$txtUserName" value="test.ca">
<cfhttpparam type="FORMFIELD" name="ctl00$MPH$txtPassword" value="mypwd!">
<cfhttpparam type="FORMFIELD" name="ctl00$MPH$txtSiteId" value="12343">
</cfhttp>
<cfif cfhttp.statuscode EQ '200 OK'>
<cfhttp result="results" url="https://stats.ezhostingserver.com/default.aspx"/>
<cfoutput>
#results.filecontent#
</cfoutput>
</cfif>
problem is every time i load the page
http://domain.in/index.cfm
it comes back to
http://domain.in/stats/Login.aspx
I am using hostek website's stats provide for a domain
The reason your code is behaving this way is because the initial URL you have in your cfhttp tag is returning an HTTP 302 redirect. Then because you have the redirect attribute of the cfhttp tag set to true it is actually performing the redirect. Look at the documentation for that attribute:
redirect - If the response header includes a Location field AND ColdFusion receives a 300-series (redirection) status code, specifies whether to redirect execution to the URL specified in the field:
yes: redirects execution to the specified page.
no: stops execution and returns the response information in the cfhttp variable, or throws an error if the throwOnError attribute is True.
The cfhttp.responseHeader.Location variable contains the redirection path. ColdFusion follows a maximum of four redirects on a request. If there are more, ColdFusion functions as if redirect = "no".
Note: The cflocation tag generates an HTTP 302 response with the url attribute as the Location header value.
So instead of using that initial URL for your cfhttp request, try using the URL it is redirecting to. And set the redirect attribute to false. But be aware that having that attribute set to false the tag will throw an error if it gets a redirect status code so you will need to handle that.
Example:
<cfhttp method="post"
url="https://stats.ezhostingserver.com/Login.aspx"
resolveurl="true"
redirect="false">
I am storing a google review URL in my database as:
https://www.google.com/search?CFID=ac59cfdf-bbad-4017-9759-e88054f3f242&CFTOKEN=0&q=njcomputerrepair%2Bbrick%2Bnj&oq=njcomp&aqs=chrome.1.69i60j69i59j69i60j69i57j0l2.2762j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#lrd=0x89c18348735c2907:0x59aa614832a36b22,3,
And then in my application I set that URL to a variable and I redirect the user to that URL using cflocation.
<cfquery name="geturl" datasource="#datasource#">
select (residential_ReviewURL) as redirectURL
from subscribers
</cfquery>
<!--- Redirect to main html redirect page --->
<cfoutput>
<cflocation url="#getURL.redirectURL#">
</cfoutput>
However the URL gets changed at some point because I think that Coldfusion doesn't like the characters in the URL and it replaces them with % or removes them. Therefore when the user hits the google page, the page doesn't process as it should.
Here is how the URL looks after the redirect:
https://www.google.com/search?CFID=ac59cfdf-bbad-4017-9759-e88054f3f242&CFTOKEN=0&CFID=ac59cfdf-bbad-4017-9759-e88054f3f242&CFTOKEN=0&q=njcomputerrepair%2Bbrick%2Bnj&oq=njcomp&aqs=chrome.1.69i60j69i59j69i60j69i57j0l2.2762j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#lrd%3D0x89c18348735c2907%3A0x59aa614832a36b22%2C3%2C
How can I stop ColdFusion from changing the URL and keep id exactly as how it is stored in the database?
UPDATE
So I found that URLdecode will preserve the string. Here is what I have.
#urlDecode(getURL.redirectURL)#
The output is as follows
https://www.google.com/search?CFID=ac59cfdf-bbad-4017-9759-e88054f3f242&CFTOKEN=0&q=njcomputerrepair+brick+nj&oq=njcomp&aqs=chrome.1.69i60j69i59j69i60j69i57j0l2.2762j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#lrd=0x89c18348735c2907:0x59aa614832a36b22,3,
Why is it adding CFID and CFTOKEN to the URL though? I have it turned off in my Application.CFM:
<cfapplication name="yaya"
clientmanagement="no"
sessionmanagement="no"
setclientcookies="no"
setdomaincookies="no"
sessiontimeout="#CreateTimeSpan(0,2,0,0)#"
applicationtimeout="#CreateTimeSpan(1,0,0,0)#"
>
To help others coming here:
cflocation have a parameter addToken which needs to set to no if we do not want to add CFID and CFTOKEN to the generated URL.
Adobe CFML reference: https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/cfml-reference/coldfusion-tags/tags-j-l/cflocation.html
I am using cfhttp (Lucee Server) to scrape page contents from a url in the following manner:
<cfhttp url="#libs.originalAdPage#" method="GET" />
I then place this content in a div on my page.
This code has been working for a long time.
I have a need to report on the url's that have been scraped for their content and that information is placed into another website form that is not in my control. I decided to convert the url's to shortened bitly url's. I built the process into the page to create a bitly link and return that url to replace the existing url.
If i use the page with a shortened url from linkedin the page is scraped and displayed correctly in the div.
<cfhttp url="http://bit.ly/1NPhPgc" method="GET" />
But if I do an identical cfhttp call to a Indeed.com page shorted to a bitly URL I get a connection failure error.
<cfhttp url="http://bit.ly/1RQvlim" method="GET" />[![cfdump of connection failure][1]][1]
If I open this URL directly in the browser the page is displayed correctly.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael
I don't have access to a Lucee server to test with, however cfhttp on a ColdFusion server works fine for me for both of those bitly URLs. cfhttp follows the redirect and the FileContent contains the indeed.com page as would be expected.
Have you verified what happens with the Bitly Indeed URL if you prevent cfhttp from automatically following the redirects so that you can debug and follow the redirects manually? ie
<cftry>
<cfhttp url="http://bit.ly/1RQvlim" method="GET" redirect="no" />
<cfdump var="#cfhttp.responseHeader#" />
<cfhttp url="#cfhttp.responseHeader.Location#" method="GET" />
<cfdump var="#cfhttp#" label="cfhttp2" />
<cfcatch>
<cfdump var="#cfcatch#" label="cfcatch" />
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
Indeed.com do pay attention to crawlers and user agents - just see their robots.txt for evidence of this.
Do you have access to a different server to test with in case there is something specific to Lucee's cfhttp implementation or to your IP address (eg blacklisted due to all the scraping)?
Have you tried tweaking the cfhttp useragent and/or any other headers as per How to emulate a real http request via cfhttp?
I've done a bit of searching but just can't put it all together. Here's what I need:
I'd like someone to surf to:
www.mysite.com/thisPlace
and have it redirect them to
www.mysite.com/template.cfm?pm=ms&loc_id=4
To do so, I somehow need to capture that they didn't request an existing file in their http request and run a .cfm page that queried the database for a record where locationName = 'thisPlace' and then redirect them to a page like
template.cfm?pm=ms&loc_id=4, where 4 is the record id of the row that matched 'thisPlace'
If your default document in IIS is set to index.cfm you could create a folder (directory) called "thisPlace" and place an index.cfm file that contains nothing but a <cflocation> tag and the accompanying query/logic to figure the URL.
Website.com/thisPlace would then function as you describe.
Edit:
You could add a custom 404 page...
Make it a .cfm file instead of html. Scan the template path to see what the user is looking for. If you find it in your database, redirect them there, else redirect them to a general 404 page.
<!---Up to a certain point (the directory in which you store your code) this will always be the same so you can hard-code your number --->
<cfset QueryConstant = #LEFT(CGI.CF_Template_Path, 22)#>
<!---Find the overall length of the template path. --->
<cfset QueryVariable = #Len(CGI.CF_Template_Path)#>
<!---Take whatever is past your QueryConstant (AKA the string that produces a 404 error.) --->
<cfset theRightNumber = QueryVariable - 22>
<cfset QuerySearchString = #RIGHT(CGI.CF_Template_Path, theRightNumber)#>
<cfquery name="ListOfLocations" datasource="CRM">
SELECT TOP 1 LocationID
FROM LocationTable
WHERE LocationName LIKE '%#QuerySearchString#%'
</cfquery>
<cfif ListOfLocations.recordcount>
<cflocation url="/SomePage.cfm?LocationID=#ListOfLocations.LocationID#">
<cfelse>
<cflocation url="/Regular404page.html">
</cfif>
Thanks guys! Huge help! Using your inputs, here's what I did:
(had to use QUERY_STRING instead of CF_Template_Path, as CF_Template_Path did not pass along anything after the url of the custom error page.
I set up a custom 404 error Execute URL in IIS to a file named check404error.cfm.
When someone looks for www.example.com/thisPlace, IIS sends them to http://www.example.com/check404error.cfm. I use the CGI.QUERY_STRING (404;http://www.example.com:443/thisPlace) to ultimately get the "thisPlace" string to search with.
<!---Up to a certain point (the directory in which you store your code) this will always be the same so you can hard-code your number --->
<cfset QueryConstant = #LEFT(CGI.QUERY_STRING, 31)#>
<!---Find the overall length of the template path. --->
<!---31 is the length of '404;http://www.example.com:443/' --->
<cfset QueryVariable = #Len(CGI.QUERY_STRING)#>
<!---Take whatever is past your QueryConstant (AKA the string that produces a 404 error.) --->
<cfset theRightNumber = QueryVariable - 31>
<cfset QuerySearchString = #RIGHT(CGI.QUERY_STRING, theRightNumber)#>
<cfquery name="ListOfLocations" datasource="#request.dsn#">
SELECT location.id
FROM location WHERE url_name = <cfqueryparam value="#QuerySearchString#" cfsqltype="CF_SQL_VARCHAR" maxlength="255"> LIMIT 1
</cfquery>
<cfif ListOfLocations.recordcount>
<cflocation url="https://example.com/template.cfm?pm=ms&loc_id=#ListOfLocations.id#" addtoken="no" statusCode="301">
<cfelse>
<cflocation url="/404error.cfm" addtoken="no">
</cfif>
This is how most popular MVC Framework work today, by parsing out the URL segments.
Do you have access to any kind of URL rewrite software?
Since you are using IIS it has a built in rewrite engine where you could simply rewrite these kind of requests to a known file saving you the overhead of sending a 404 reply and parsing that out and having more request created as a result of that.
See http://wiki.coldbox.org/wiki/URLMappings.cfm for details. We use the Isapi rewrite version version to do just what you are asking for
Receive request for www.mysite.com/thisPlace
thisPlace isn't a directory
thisPlace isn't a file
Resend to index.cfm or a location of your chosing for additional parsing
Helicon Rewrite sends an HTTP header named HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL with the original requested URL so parsing it out is then very easy.
This all happens inline withing the one request so the client is never redirected.