with a new project we encountered some strange behaviour on our ColdFusion application. Whenever a single request is initiated from the browser, the code of the cfml-templates is executed multiple times. Upon viewing the corresponding log-files we found out, that indeed for some reason the same request fires the evaluation in our application multiple times. One request generates several entries. This is especially the case for long-running requests, such as database imports.
The ColdFusion application implements a REST-service, but even on manually requesting a resource, such as a certain cfml page, on the same application - the code gets executed an unknown amount of times(variable initializations, database write-operations etc. take place), and if the request runs too long (cap at around ~4-6 seconds) there is no response to the browser.
About the infrastructure: The application is Coldfusion18 with Tomcat Standard Edition The webserver is an Apache (2.4.6). Everything runs on a Linux machine with Cent OS 7.7 The corresponding Java version is 11.0.4
Our best guess is that there might be some misscommunication between the coldfusion connector with the apache webserver. We actually searched for some configuration parameters that could cause the problem, without success. Upon an installation on a windows machine we did not encounter that error.
Anyone got any idea?
