Coldfusion cfdocument bug with images and Windows Authentication

4. March 2011 16:52 by Mrojas in General  //  Tags: , , ,   //   Comments (0)

If you are running your Coldfusion Server with IIS7 and you use Windows Authentication you should be aware that you might
encouter a bug if you try to use a cfdocument tag like:

 <cfdocument format="pdf">

Hello World <img src="images/world.png">

</cfdocument>

The problem here is that Coldfusion will use http to get the image when building the PDF, and because this site uses Windows Authentication it crashes.

How to solve it?

 <cfdocument format="pdf" localUrl="true">

Hello World <img src="images/world.png">

</cfdocument>

This solves this bug and also improves perfomance because CF will convert images/world.png to a physical path like file://E:/images/world.png

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