Coldfusion error in Metatalk

January 26, 2001 12:38 PM

I'm getting the following ColdFusion error whenever I attempt to
open any topic page in MetaTalk (this is only when using AOL Mac 5.0's crappy internal pseudo-IE browser; big ugly error message hidden inside):
posted by aaron to bugs at 12:38 PM (3 comments total)

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Error Occurred While Processing Request


Error Diagnostic Information

An error occurred while evaluating the expression: 
 BROWSER.mozillaVersion=GetToken(#USER_AGENT#, 2, "/ (")

Error near line 171, column 9.
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Error resolving parameter USER_AGENT
ColdFusion was unable to determine the value of the parameter. This problem is very likely due to the fact that either: 

1.	You have misspelled the parameter name, or 
2.	You have not specified a QUERY attribute for a CFOUTPUT, CFMAIL, or CFTABLE tag.

Date/Time: 01/26/01 12:35:32
Browser: 
Remote Address: 205.188.193.187
Query String: category_ID=5
Please inform the site administrator that this error has occurred (be sure to include the contents of this page in your message to the administrator).

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posted by aaron at 12:39 PM on January 26, 2001

whoah. The IE browser has no user agent property? You can view a comment thread on MetaFilter ok? The same code is being called in both places.
posted by mathowie at 1:00 PM on January 26, 2001

Just checked, and yeah MetaFilter itself works fine. Attempting to load a MetaTalk thread directly (such as this one) works fine. It's just when trying to load a MetaTalk topic page in that one browser.
posted by aaron at 1:57 PM on January 26, 2001