User Guide

220 Chapter 2: ColdFusion Tags

cflocation

Description

Stops execution of the current page and opens a ColdFusion page or HTML file.

See also

cfabort, cfbreak, cfexecute, cfexit, cfif, cfloop, cfswitch, cfthrow, cftry

Attributes

Usage

You might write a standard message or response in a file, and call it from several applications. You

could use this tag to redirect the user’s browser to the standard file.

This tag has no effect if you use it after the

cfflush tag on a page.

Example

<h3>cflocation Example</h3>

<p>This tag redirects the browser to a web resource; normally, you would

use this tag to go to a CF page or an HTML file on the same server.

The addToken attribute lets you send client information to the

target page.

<p>If you remove the comments, this code redirects you to CFDOCS home page:

<!--- <cflocation url = "http://localhost:8500/cfdocs/dochome.htm"

addToken = "No"> --->

Attribute Req/Opt Default Description

url Required URL of HTML file or CFML page to open.

addToken Optional clientManagement must be enabled (see cfapplication

on page 51).

• Yes: appends client variable information to URL

• No