The use of a <cflocation> tag anywhere in the application could trigger the onError() event. The same applies to using the <cfabort> tag within a processing block, it would trigger the onError() event as well. I believe this was due to the onError() event not filtering out the internal error type thrown by those tags.

I was sure I've done <cflocation>s in apps that had onError methods... but maybe not. Sorry for that, I thought you were refering to using <cflocation> inside an event handler, which I dissaprove of.

That's not a bug. The Destination attribute expects the folder, not the filename.

That is like putting Pound signs in your cfml code, you can do it but it doesn't make it correct just because it doesn't through an error.

just my 2 cents.

Roland, they posted a hot fix today.

Ray:

Before the updater I had a gridcol with both dates and text (the query that populated the grid would return "exhausted" if the date was less than today, or "greater than 5 years" if applicable - or simply a date in the mm/dd/yyyy format). In my cfgridcolumn I added type="date" and everything worked out perfect - the dates sorted correctly and the text items were grouped accordingly. After the updater, any non-date text items are turned into blank cells in the grid. Removing type=date returns the text and the dates to the column, but doesn't sort correctly. What gives?

Also - where is the Ask a jedi box and all the other links, etc on your site? They're gone!?

Indeed it is fixed.

Would my issue be considered a bug since it is a change in functionality that produces an undesired result? After all, it worked before the updater...

If so, how do I report that?

The updater 7.1 shows a blank page when using CFLOCATION on any page. This is because I am using the OnRequest method on Application.cfc, it raises an exception. Earlier the exception would be caught by OnError method but now the behavior has changed. An ideal fix will be to change the CFLOCATION behavior on Application.cfc so that its use does not raise an exception if it is being called with in OnRequest Method.

Here is some code to reproduce the issue, create a new folder in your site to see if you too get the blank screen error. I can send you the URL of our DEV site via email if you want to see it in action.

<!--- ************************** Application.cfc ************************** --->
<cfcomponent output="false">

   <cfscript>
      this.name="Debug_CFLOCATION";
      this.sessionManagement=true;
      this.applicationTimeout=createtimespan(2,0,0,0);
      this.sessionTimeout=createtimespan(0,0,30,0);
   </cfscript>
   
<cffunction name="onApplicationStart" returntype="void" output="false">
</cffunction>


<cffunction name="onSessionStart" returntype="void" output="false">
</cffunction>


<cffunction name="onRequestStart" returntype="void" output="false">
</cffunction>
   
<cffunction name="onRequestEnd" returntype="void" output="false">      
</cffunction>


<cffunction name="onSessionEnd">
</cffunction>
      
<cffunction name="onApplicationEnd" output="false">
</cffunction>

<cffunction name="onError">
   
<cfargument name="Exception" required="true"/>
<cfargument type="String" name = "EventName" required="true"/>
      
      <cfswitch expression="#arguments.exception.rootcause.type#">
         <cfcase value="coldfusion.runtime.AbortException">
            <cfreturn/>
         </cfcase>
         <cfdefaultcase>
            <cfdump var="#exception#"/>
         </cfdefaultcase>
      </cfswitch>
      
</cffunction>         
         
</cfcomponent>

<!--- ************************** Index.cfm ************************** --->
<cfparam name="form.submit" default=""/>
<cfparam name="url.logoff" default="0"/>

<cfif len(form.submit)>
   <cfset session.user = form.user/>
   <cflocation url="index.cfm" addtoken="no"/>
<cfelseif url.logoff>
   <cfscript>
      structDelete(session,"user");
      StructClear(session);
   </cfscript>
   <cflocation url="index.cfm" addtoken="no"/>   
</cfif>

<cfif IsDefined("session.user") and len(session.user)>
   User <cfoutput><b>#session.user#</b></cfoutput> logged in<br />
   <a href="index.cfm?logoff=1">Log Off</a>
<cfelse>
   <cfform action="index.cfm" method="post" name="frmLogin">
      User Name:<input type="text" size="12" name="user"/>&nbsp;<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Log In"/>
   </cfform>   
</cfif>

This indeed was a CFLOCATION issue, and happens when running JRun with updater 6, here is the link to the hot fix provided by Macromedia for this
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/in...

I am running 7.0.1 and CFLOCATION still causes onError to trigger. I put the code from the earlier 7.0 post into the code, and it at least doesn't trigger my error emails anymore.