RE: /index.htm reload?

Joel-

         I believe this is because the 404 page is not being put through 
the CF pre-processor. (I think they refer to it as the application server, 
yadda yadda) Instead it is being sent directly to the browser. Are you 
getting raw code when you try requesting a non-existent page?
         Looking quickly I see this tag:

<CFINCLUDE TEMPLATE="Menu.cfm">

         Which I believe would normally be parsed out and replaced with the 
Menu.cfm file. If that is the case it is usually a dead give away that the 
page is not being put through the pre-processor.

-Stephen

At 09:22 AM 3/14/2000 , you wrote:
>I hope this sheds a little more light as well on the index.htm reload?
>topic.  As some have already pointed out, most web servers come configured
>to auto laod any set of standardized pages when typing just the domain name
>in.  However, I tested a theory today that proves that despite the the fact
>that the same page loads and the page looks the same, it indeed is using
>different resources.
>
>I defined a custom 404 error page as error404.cfm
>
>When I typed http://www.shockjockies.com/error404.cfm  The page worked
>correctly with the code I had in the page.  However, When I typed
>http://www.shockjockies.com/stupid.html or any other invalid link my cfm
>code didn't process correctly.  I had to insert the original html code into
>my error page and remove the cfm tags for it to work.   Now it would would
>seem to me that if was using the exact same resources then it would have
>done the same thing in both instances.
>
>Any thoughts or elaboration on this idea are greatly appreciated, as I would
>prefer to keep my cfm tags in that page.  I use a menu and footer template
>for all tables.  If I change my menu in menu.cfm or the footer.cfm file then
>i would have to rework that in each of my error pages which defeats the
>purpose.
>
>
>Thanks for any ideas,
>
>
>Joel

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