Technology
Technology Glossary — Click on an entry for a link to more in-depth information.

ASP
(Application Service Provider or Active Server Pages) Unfortunately, ASP has two distinct meanings. Active Server Pages are a Microsoft technology platform for serving dynamic web pages. Of more relevance to credit union marketers are Application Service Providers. Application Service Providers provide an outsourced service over the internet. Examples include MCIF, Data Mining, Surveys, Online Banking. Your credit union's online banking vendor is an excellent example of an Application Service Provider.

ColdFusion
A popular programming language that enables a company to deliver dynamic, database-driven web pages. CUMarketingDept.com is powered by ColdFusion. You can easily spot a ColdFusion powered website: the URLs contain .cfm. Allaire is the company that created ColdFusion.

Domain Name
A hierarchical scheme for indicating logical and sometimes geographical venue of a web page on the network. (For example, this page resides in the domain of

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Please contact the website administrator.

The following information is meant for the website developer for debugging purposes.
Error Occurred While Processing Request

Element WEBROOT is undefined in REQUEST.

 
The error occurred in D:\websites\everythingcu\Inetpub\everythingcu.com\neighborhoods\glossary.cfm: line 31
 
29 : 								</font><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">A popular programming language that enables a company to deliver dynamic, database-driven web pages. CUMarketingDept.com is powered by ColdFusion. You can easily spot a ColdFusion powered website: the <a href="#Anchor-URL-17005">URL</a>s contain .cfm. <a href="http://www.allaire.com/" target="new">Allaire</a> is the company that created ColdFusion.</font></h4>
30 : 							<h4><a name="Anchor-Domain-34108"></a><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="../articles/domain_name1.cfm">Domain Name</a><br>
31 : 								</font><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">A hierarchical scheme for indicating logical and sometimes geographical venue of a web page on the network. (For example, this page resides in the domain of <cfoutput>#request.webroot#</cfoutput>) In the US, common domains are .edu (education), .gov (government agency), .net (network related), .com (commercial), .org (non-profit and research organizations). Outside the US, domains indicate country: ca (Canada), uk (United Kingdom), au (Australia), jp (Japan), fr (France), etc. Neither of these lists is exhaustive. To find out who might own or be behind a domain, read about <a href="http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/EvalQuestions.html#LookUp" target="new">looking up a page</a> in the appropriate domain registry. See also <a href="#Anchor-URL-17005">URL.</a></font></h4>
32 : 							<h4><a name="Anchor-GIF-4889"></a><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="http://www.infohiway.com/faster/gifsummary.html" target="new">GIF</a><br>
33 : 								</font><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2">(Graphic Interchange Format) This format for graphics was originally invented for use on Compuserve. It is limited to 256 colors (8-bit color). Unlike JPEG, GIF images can be animated and/or transparent. GIF is usually the right choice if the graphic contains mostly solid colors. The most common alternative is <a href="#Anchor-JPEG-59037">JPEG.</a></font></h4>
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Browser   CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
Remote Address   38.103.63.17
Referrer  
Date/Time   09-May-08 06:51 AM
Stack Trace
at cfglossary2ecfm960296167.runPage(D:\websites\everythingcu\Inetpub\everythingcu.com\neighborhoods\glossary.cfm:31) 

coldfusion.runtime.UndefinedElementException: Element WEBROOT is undefined in REQUEST.
	at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.resolveCanonicalName(CfJspPage.java:1061)
	at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._resolve(CfJspPage.java:1038)
	at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._resolveAndAutoscalarize(CfJspPage.java:1137)
	at cfglossary2ecfm960296167.runPage(D:\websites\everythingcu\Inetpub\everythingcu.com\neighborhoods\glossary.cfm:31)
	at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:152)
	at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:349)
	at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65)
	at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:225)
	at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:51)
	at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:86)
	at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:69)
	at coldfusion.filter.BrowserDebugFilter.invoke(BrowserDebugFilter.java:52)
	at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28)
	at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)
	at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)
	at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)
	at coldfusion.filter.RequestThrottleFilter.invoke(RequestThrottleFilter.java:115)
	at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:107)
	at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:78)
	at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:91)
	at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42)
	at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:257)
	at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:541)
	at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:204)
	at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:318)
	at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:426)
	at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:264)
	at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)