Are you trying to read a file on the server and send it to the browser? You keep saying firefox and IE are giving errors, but it's a CF error right?
-Cameron On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Peyton Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. My site needs to load PDFs which are located in a different > directory (in fact, on a different disk drive) than the one on which the > site's web pages reside. In developing this by working as localhost on my > own desktop PC at home, the following code works flawlessly: > > <cfcontent file = 'D:/Styles/553/55303.pdf'> > > where the web page containing the above line of code, and everything else > in the site, is on a subdirectory of C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/. Also, in real life > the parameter 'D:/Styles/553/55303.pdf' is a #variable# which can evaluate > to that path among others; I'm hard-coding it here to simplify the example. > > My problem is that this must work on a network where the target is in a > virtual directory on a different box. Since that virtual directory presents > itself to us humans as drive J, the value of the file attribute in the above > <cfcontent> tag should presumably be 'J:/553/55303.pdf'. But when I plug > 'J:/553/55303.pdf' into the above tag, both Firefox(FF) and Internet > Explorer(IE) complain that the file does not exist. > > A different approach is suggested by the fact that Windows Explorer (a.k.a > 'My Computer') shows the 'real(?), or underlying(?) location corresponding > to virtual drive J to be "Styles on 'dsm=svr1-acr'". The Help desk at > Leapfrog (the company which built my client's network) suggested that I use > '//dsm-svr1-acr/553/55303.pdf' instead of 'J:/553/55303.pdf'. But when I try > that, FF says it 'can't establish a connection to the server at > dsm-svr1-acr'; and IE says 'Page cannot be displayed'. > > The third method I tried was to use <cflocation> istead of <cfcontent>, as > below: > > <cflocation url="J:/553/55303.pdf">. > > I would assume <cflocation> should be equivalent to the <cfcontent> tag in > this situation since, based on the Livedocs, the difference between the two > seems to be only that <cfcontent> provides extra capabilities such as > specifying the MIME type, loading from a variable instead of a file, and > deleting the file after its contents are loaded to the page; and none of > those capabilities are needed here. Is that right? > > In any case, when I try the code with <cflocation> as above, sometimes the > PDF is loaded or failure. When it does not work, FF sometimes interprets the > letter J as a protocol, and reports that it 'doesn't know how to open this > address because the protocol (J) isn't associated with any program'. At > other times it simply loads a blank page with no error message (based on my > notes, this seems to depend on whether the value of the url attribute was > substituted vs. hard-coded but I'm not sure of this). As to IE, when the > <cflocation> method does not work, I get a javascript message saying 'Error: > Member not found' (I neglected to mention that the page containing the > <cfcontent> or <cflocation> tag is actually loaded to a child window via the > javascript code: > > win=window.open: (showpdf,'Style','width=800,height=500,resizable=yes'), > > where shopdf evaluates to the url of the page containing the <cfcontent> or > <cflocation> tag, with the path to the file as part of its query string. > > Can anyone shed light on what's happening here, and what I should be doing > to make this work? > > Thanks, > > Peyton > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com > > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- Cameron Childress Sumo Consulting Inc http://www.sumoc.com --- cell: 678.637.5072 aim: cameroncf email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
