[thelist] CF question: recuperate querystring

[Raymond Camden]

The entire string is available in a CGI var, CGI.QUERY_STRING, so, if you
are doing a "show ad on first hit" type thing, your Application.cfm could
have:

<CFIF NOT IsDefined("Cookie.Adhit")>
	<CFINCLUDE TEMPLATE="Ad.cfm">
</CFIF>

Ad.cfm could be:

<!--- Ad crap here --->
<CFCOOKIE NAME="Adhit" VALUE="RayCamdenWasHere">

In the "Ad Crap" area, for your meta refresh, just have it point to
#CGI.SCRIPT_NAME# (this will be everything before the ?) and
#CGI.QUERY_STRING#, like so...

URL="#CGI.SCRIPT_NAME#?#CGI.QUERY_STRING#"

I hope this makes sense.

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Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Macromedia

Email   : jedimaster at macromedia.com
ICQ UIN : 3679482

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>
>
> Hi gang,
>
> My time to ask a question.
> I don't seem to find the answer in the CFML ref, so here it is:
>
> We use session variables to display a special page the first time
> someone comes to a section of our site. Yet since the site is
> dynamically generated, people may have bookmarked a particular URL, say :
>
> <wrap>
> http://www.ridingzone.com/rz2/stef_test/xkultur/index.cfm?ou=3&idt
> a=77290000-7B98-11D5-B29600508BEEC4AB&gaba=1
> </wrap>
>
> so the first time one comes to this URL I want the sponsor to show (it's
> a simple HTML page with a small flash and a meta refresh after 5
> seconds) and then to direct people to the page they've bookmarked. How
> do you recuperate the URL and querystring in a CF variable?
>