Coldfusion: Detecting if being run by the scheduler

Question

Is there a way for a ColdFusion app to know whether it is being run from the scheduler vs. from a browser? Ideally, I'd like to set a Session flag, for instance "isScheduled" in Application.cfm to be used throughout the app.

EDIT I ended up checking the user agent, and that it is being run locally (to improve security), and (since it is running in Application.cfm) that the page is in the folder which allows scheduling:

Request.isScheduled = FindNoCase("CFSCHEDULE",CGI.HTTP_USER_AGENT) and (Find("10.",CGI.REMOTE_ADDR)==1 or Find("198.162.",CGI.REMOTE_ADDR)==1) and FindNoCase("scheduled",CGI.CF_TEMPLATE_PATH);

Answer 1

Check for the user agent. The user agent is "CFSCHEDULE" but please confirm this first.

Answer 2

I nest my Application.cfm logic in a cfif, that checks to see if a parameter ('cron') is defined. If it is, then it skips all of the rest of the logic in Application like authentication, header crap, etc.

Then when I set up the scheduled tasks I pass in the URL I want to hit with the cron parameter (http://mysite.com/scheduledtasks.cfm?cron=yo)