Query Strings - reading string parameters

[Decus]

Hi, I'm a newbie to coldfusion. What I'm trying to acieve is send a string parameter in a url and have the next page read the value.

myfirstpage.cfm
<cfset subjectname = &quot;English&quot;>
<cfoutput>
<a href=&quot;mynextpage.cfm?subjectname=#subjectname#>
#subjectname#</a>
</cfoutput>

mynextpage.cfm
The parameter visible in the url address bar is

http://www.xxx.com/mynextpage.cfm?subjectname=English

so does seem to send value ok. The code to read the value is

<cfoutput>
#url.subjectname#
</cfoutput>

The value displayed in the browser is 0(zero). Why? How may I receive the string value?

 

[Decus]

Problem solved.
It wasn't the code but ftp problems. ftp client did not overwrite previous code which included the statement
#val(url.subjectname)# hence why the returned value of zero.