Strange Error... as usual

[scotteh]

Hi

I need any clues I can get here. This is really strange (what else is
new).

I have one computer in the office that cant use a search page. There
are 4 buttons for 4 options on the page. It loads and is on the first
page (first button), no problem. But as soon as she clicks any other
button, the page goes white and is filled with an error message.

If I close it and clear the cache, then reopen everything works
perfectly..... until I close it. The next time I reopen it (2 seconds
later) the same error happens again. I clear the cache and it's fixed
again. I just don't get it.

The error is:

Error Occurred While Processing Request
Error Diagnostic Information
An error occurred while evaluating the expression:
#Left(EXPLORERFORM, 5)# Is "GROUP"
Error near line 142, column 31.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Error resolving parameter EXPLORERFORM
ColdFusion was unable to determine the value of the parameter. This
problem is very likely due to the fact that either:
You have misspelled the parameter name, or
You have not specified a QUERY attribute for a CFOUTPUT, CFMAIL, or
CFTABLE tag.
The error occurred while processing an element with a general
identifier of (CFIF), occupying document position (142:2) to (142:42).

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This only happens on this ONE computer. I've checked for viruses and
spyware. Theres nothing unusual running on it (except for the gmail
notifier, which shouldnt be a problem). I'm out of ideas! Even though
it's a Cold Fusion Error it's obviosly local.

Any ideas or clues no matter how obvious they may seem might help!

Thanks!

Scott

 

[scotteh]

Well, no one replied but I found the answer so I'll post it for future
reference.

It turned out that when you access that search page (which runs on
Cold Fusion) you get a session ID. That ID gets embedded in the html
file names. That means that you need to use brand new copies of these
files every time you access that site. If you use an old, cached copy
it will have an old session ID and you will get an error. So I checked
in here:

Tools - Internet Options - Temporary Internet Files - Settings -
"Check For Newer Versions of Stored Pages"

and found this was set to "Never" on this persons computer. I switched
it back to "Automatically" and everything works perfectly again.

Hope this helps someone else!

Scott