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cfsetting 397

cfsetting

Description

Controls aspects of page processing, such as the output of HTML code in pages.

See also

cfcache

, cfflush, cfheader, cfhtmlhead, cfinclude, cfprocessingdirective, cfsilent;

“Controlling debugging output with the cfsetting tag” in Chapter 18, “Debugging and

Troubleshooting Applications,” in ColdFusion MX Developer’s Guide

History

ColdFusion MX 6.1: Changed behavior: if the tag has a body, ColdFusion executes its contents.

ColdFusion MX:

• Added the requestTimeOut attribute.

• The catchExceptionsByPattern attribute is obsolete. It does not work, and causes an error,

in releases later than ColdFusion 5.

• Changed exception handling: the structured exception manager searches for the best-fit

cfcatch handler. (In earlier releases, an exception was handled by the first cfcatch block that

could handle an exception of its type.)

Attributes

Attribute Req/Opt Default Description

enableCFoutputOnly Required • Yes: blocks output of HTML that is outside

cfoutput tags.

• No: displays HTML that is outside

cfoutput tags.

showDebugOutput Optional Yes • Yes: if debugging is enabled in the Administrator,

displays debugging information.

• No: suppresses debugging information that would

otherwise display at the end of the generated page.

requestTimeout Optional • Integer; number of seconds. Time limit, after which

ColdFusion processes the page as an

unresponsive thread. Overrides the timeout set in

the ColdFusion Administrator.