Comments on: Poor Man's HTTP Compression with ColdFusion

By: I4

I4 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 01:55:00 +0000

Did you find a work around for this? I seem to have the same issue.

By: Jim Cook

Jim Cook — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:18:47 +0000

Just found this, gave it a try on CF8.01/Win2003. All CFLOCATIONS failed to work, had to uninstall it. Bummer, 'cause it worked very well otherwise.

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:28:38 +0000

I have the same error … Either the Macromedia application server(s) are unreachable or none of them has a mapping to process this request.

but have no idea what all the above information means… can someone tell me in layman’s terms how to rectify the problem ? Please email

By: Cheve

Cheve — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:37:07 +0000

The code for the mapping got mangled when submiting, this is how it looks changing the brackets:


  CfmServlet
  *.cfz>/url-pattern>


Regards

By: Cheve

Cheve — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:32:31 +0000

Ok, so anyone having the same problem can fix it:

My problem was that I was trying to configure the filter to work NOT with the normal CFM extension but with a new CFZ extension, so I can decide which files are compressed and which ones don’t, so if you want to implement this filter you have to add the CFZ extension to the IIS app extensions AND in web.xml in coldfusion you also have to add a new servlet-mapping:

CfmServlet
*.cfz

Be sure to use the NEXT mapping number in the ID when adding the new one (id=”coldfusion_mapping_XX”)

Regards

By: Cheve

Cheve — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:26:38 +0000

I am trying to implement this filter in coldfusion8, I had it working in CF7, but when copying the jar file to LIB, and the above code to web.xml all I get is:
HTTP/1.1 503 Server Error
A server error occurred
Server Error
Either the Macromedia application server(s) are unreachable or none of them has a mapping to process this request.

Any idea what am I doing wrong?
I googled for an answer but there’s nothing about CF8 and this filter especifically so I asume it should work with no problems, but I cannot get it to work!

Regards

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:46:55 +0000

Nice article

Will this servlet work on the 64 bit version of CF8? I guess I am asking whether servelets need to be compiled as 64 bit

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:33:42 +0000

The CMS seems to mal-form the code, so I’ve added a screenshot.

By: steven

steven — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:39:03 +0000

your web.xml example looks wrong – shouldn’t “GzipFilter be between the “filter-name” tags, and *.cfm be between the “url-pattern” tags, instead of being after.

By: Sami Hoda

Sami Hoda — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:16:44 +0000

Glad you liked it!