VARing cffile and the result variable

I am using cffile to upload incoming files and of course in my component I "var" the cffile variable at the top of the function (like one should do with cfhttp etc):

The problem is that somehow the cffile scope will stay zero - until I added the property "result" to the cffile tag saying the result should be stored as "cffile" - so the whole call is:



Now it works again!

JVM heap errors: Check every cffile / cfhttp request

This weekend I ran into trouble because the JVM (too small heap size) was crashing several times and after some research and debugging I found out that reading a 80 megabyte file with cffile was the reason for all the pain.
So be aware of this and do the following:

• Check the size of uploaded files (by performing checks with the size given in cffile or using a routine like that).
• Before you request any unknown website using cfhttp, do a HEADER operation and check out for the size (cfhttp.responseHeader, Content-Length) or add Content-Range headers to the request in order to allow only a certain content size