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CFINCLUDE equivalent for HTML only

Hi,

Is there CFINCLUDE equivalent tag that would include some html file, but would not process any CFM?

Basically I allow users to save files using my interface.

Then on my page I have the following structure:

.....my code (necessary)......
<cfinclude template="usersfile.html">
.....my code (necessary)......

Everything is fine except that user can potentially put CFM code to his file and get control of the server.

So how do I do that "cfinclude" without processing CFML inside usersfile.html

Thanks

Seth_Bienek

Hi alexerm,

Try using <cffile>:

<cffile action="read" file="usersfile.html" variable="usersfile">
<cfoutput>#usersfile#</cfoutput>

This should render the text of the file without evaluating it as ColdFusion code.

Best Regards,

Seth

alexerm

ASKER

I'm trying to avoid cffile whenever is possible because of it's bad perfomance.

Is there any other ways to do it without cffile?

Thanks

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Tacobell777

How about saving the file as include.html and use cfinclude, I don't think it will evaluate any CF code, give it a go.

alexerm

ASKER

Reply to Tacobell777:

Unfortunetely, it does evaluate CF code, when using CFinclude, no matter what extension of the included file is

Alex

danrosenthal

The only thing I can think of (other than CFFILE) is to store the page in a Database.

Tacobell777

I never tried it, weird though.

How about, if you read the file into a variable and the output it like so

#dE(myFileVariable)#

anandkp

try this

<img src="my_cfm_or_html_or_any_file_i_need_to_execute.htm' width="1" height="1" border="0">

let me know ...

K'Rgds
Anand

alexerm

ASKER

Hi, Anand

The idea with <img> did not work. I would be surprised if it did work

Thanks

Alex

Tacobell777

Did you try my idea?

I don;t know what it is lately but people ignore me, any ideas why?

alexerm

ASKER

Hi, Tacobell

I did not ignore your post.

If I read from file and just output variable, then there is no need to use DE(...).

Basically when I posted this question I was aware of solution that would read from file using cffile or some other custom tag and then just output whatever was read from file. (and there is no need to use DE in this solution)

However, my question was is there standard coldfusion tag that would include file like CFINCLUDE but would not process CFML inside.

Alex

Seth_Bienek

I stand by my original suggestion. :)

Tacobell777

If you read a html file with cffile, then output the result within dE() them I'm pretty sure it won't be evaluated.
dE stands for Delay Evaluation, thus is your problem is that something is evaluated then you'd want to use dE()

Tacobell777

or in your html file that you call in the cfinclude you need to put dE() around every variable present, I'm pretty sure that will work to, if it's not dE() that works then dE(dE(variable)) will work.

alexerm

ASKER

Hi, Taco

-------------------------------------------------------
<cffile action="read" ......... variable="myvar">
#myvar#
-----------------------------------------------------

does not require to use DE.

My problem was that CFINCLUDE evaluates CFML.

Alex

Tacobell777

you know what, you seem to know it all, sort it out by yourself. ciao

alexerm

ASKER

Tacobell,

You asked me to comment about your idea and I did

I don't understand why you got frustrated