I ran into a little bit of a problem today and I was wondering if possibly someone has encountered the same problem and found a solution for it. I have a client that needed a quick fix on a web site today. No worries, I fire up my trusty Eclipse editor and proceed to setup an RDS connection. Their network requires connecting to the server via HTTPS so in my RDS configuration I set it to use port 443 for communicating with the server, but every time I try to connect to the server it just times out.

I ended up getting the connection working with Homesite+ as there is an option to use HTTPS as well as being able to set the port. I would much rather use Eclipse though since all my tools are there.

Has anyone solved this? If so, any help would be appreciated.

First and foremost, let me say that Todd Sharp rocks.  Days ago I sent Todd an email regarding a problem I was having with the SnipEx server and he got back to me with a solution in a few hours.  Between a hectic work schedule and dealing with children, it has taken me a few days to try his solution, alas, no dice.  However, Todd did go out of his way to quickly lend me some help and follow up with me to see if it was working.  I think that speaks volumes.

Which brings me to the second part of this post.  The problem I am having is when I click on a node on the root SnipEx tree I will get a listing of sub-nodes.  However, when I open a sub-node it will repeat the root again and so on and so forth.  I suppose I should mention I am running CF/Eclipse on Windows Vista (I can hear the snickers from here).  Has anyone had similar issues with this?

Todd pointed me to the FAQ on http://cfsnippets.org and this blog post by Ray Camden about clearing the SnipEx  cache in Eclipse.  I am wondering if reinstalling Eclipse would help out in this situation.  If anyone has coped with this problem before I am definitely open to suggestions.

Well, like many people it would seem, I have had a hit and miss relationship with Eclipse. I started playing around with it a few weeks back but the interface was a little overwhelming to begin with. I was having problems getting RDS set up and since I work primarily off the server it got set on the back burner for a while. Back to Dreamweaver.

Then the other day I was busy griping about this on Ray Camden's blog and he was nice enough to point out that RDS support is included in Adobe's Eclipse plugin, not in CFEclipse.

Needless to say, my RDS worries are gone. I have been using Eclipse for the last few days and it is the greatest thing since sliced bread.