[thelist] cflocation woes

[Aaron Johnson]

hi Aaron,

Internally <cflocation> is sending a status code 302 to the browser and then
shoving the user to the new page... you can replicate this using CFHEADER
*AND* you can set a cookie:

	<!--- set your cookie --->
	<cfcookie name="myChocolateChipCookie" value="#someid#">
	<!--- now redirect the user to some page --->
	<cfheader statuscode="302" statustext="Object Temporarily Moved">
	<cfheader name="location"
value="http://#cgi.server_name#/default.cfm?asjksj=#createUUID()#">

You'll notice that I append a unique key to the redirect page. Nutscrape has
a nasty habit of actually showing the "Object Temporarily Moved" message to
end users, appending a unique key cures this.

HTH

Aaron Johnson, MCSE, MCP+I
Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
MINDSEYE, Inc.
<phn>617.350.0339
<fax>617.350.8884
<icq>66172567
ajohnson at mindseye.com

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Aaron Cole
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 12:30 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] cflocation woes
>
>
> I'm currently building a password-protected site that utilizes a simple
> cookie to track the user's id.
>
> The index page has a form for the user to enter her
> username/password.  The
> action page then performs an INSERT and sets a <cfcookie>.
>
> I finish off the action page with a <cflocation> which points back to the
> index page.
>
> For some reason the index page doesn't recognize the cookie.
> However, if I
> comment out the <cflocation> and use a simple href on the action
> page that
> has to be manually clicked, no problem.
>
> I thought it was a caching problem, but neither refreshing nor adding a
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="0"> tag does the trick.
>
> I'm at a loss.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> TIA,
> Aaron
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