Yahoo using CF?

Posted by Joshua on May 6, 2008 * Add comments
Categories: Coldfusion

A colleague of mine sent me a couple links on Yahoo's site that actually had ".cfm" extensions.   My first thought was, wow.  My second thought was I wonder if they plan on using CF in other areas besides the press room and in job post? 

http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/management.cfm
https://yahoo.recruitmax.com/MAIN/careerportal/Job_Profile.cfm?szOrderID=11916&szUniqueCareerPortalID=b22460b8-2565-4396-9190-8a7b37df9db2


9 responses to “Yahoo using CF?”


  1. Peter Bell on  May 6, 2008 at 11:34 AM

    Peter Bell Looks to me line shareholder.com and recruitmax.com are using CF - not Yahoo. Not sure of corporate ownership structures of those two domain names, but they may not be Yahoo! companies . . .

  2. Phillip Duba on  May 6, 2008 at 11:38 AM

    Phillip Duba Recruitmax is a separate company that specializes in HR recruiting so I'm guessing Yahoo! is a customer of theirs. I would imagine shareholder.com is the same type of thing.

  3. Josh on  May 6, 2008 at 11:40 AM

    Josh Ah... my bad. Good catch guys! I need to learn to read farther down the URL path ;)

  4. Josh on  May 6, 2008 at 11:55 AM

    Josh Ah... my bad. Good catch guys! I need to learn to read farther down the URL path ;)

  5. Burt Swanson on  May 6, 2008 at 12:11 PM

    Burt Swanson When I talk to people who gripe about Cold Fusion and say it's losing popularity, I just respond by saying that's not true, that Cold Fusion is just becoming more selective.

    That gets them too shut up!

  6. Bill Roberts on  May 7, 2008 at 8:19 PM

    Bill Roberts Actually, Yahoo IS using ColdFusion. Look here: http://www.google.com/search?q=a+site:yahoo.com+filetype:cfm&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=bgw&as_qdr=all&start=0&sa=N

  7. Peter Bell on  May 7, 2008 at 8:32 PM

    Peter Bell Well, I hate to disappoint, but try going to one of those links. Say:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/airforcesecurityservice/message/hobo_2007.cfm

    Then replace the .cfm. Then replace it with .php. Even try a .pdf. All of them turn up the same page. Looks like a regex passing the request to a handler irrespective of file extension.

    Oh well!

  8. Josh on  May 8, 2008 at 5:31 AM

    Josh Ya looks that way Peter... you can even put aspx, asp, jsp and it all works. Try html as well.

    What is odd though is that when I go to Google and type in any of those extentions, the airforce group doesnt pop up.

    Anyway, no biggie if Yahoo isnt using CF, it wouldnt be the end of the world ;)

  9. Kyle Hayes on  May 12, 2008 at 8:35 AM

    Kyle Hayes Yeah, notice that these are the messageboards and therefore are using SEO URLs for message types. I doubt Yahoo! is using CF.

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