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>Then in a sheepish voice you tell them "I'll have
> it ready in about another hour."
hahahahahaha!!!!!! good luck!
Famous last words!!!!
Whenever my clients get on the phone everything changes and all of a sudden
I become this 'uber-man' that can do astonishing feats of complex
development in less than 5 seconds.... its like my brain takes a holiday....
good luck :-)
Benjamin
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 7:07 AM
Subject: Re: Download Text file - SOLVED???
> You know, you just get to that point where you are absolutely convinced
> that a certain solution will work. I mean its got to. You're running
> out of possible permutations of how to solve the freakin' thing. Then
> you save the file. refresh the browser. click the button
> and....nothing. Then about 2 hours pass as you sit there staring
> resentfully at your monitor wondering if the thoughts that you are
> having will immediately send you to hell no matter how many times you go
> to confession. Co-worker upon co-worker come to your cube to ask you
> for the up-teenth million time why the "Internet is slow" and see that
> you're knuckles are white and at critical mass and decide, wisely, that
> now is not the time to bug you. Then the phone rings and you see that
> it's the client that spawned this demon seed and while you want to reach
> through the phone to tear out their lungs, you decide, wisely, that it's
> not such a good idea. Then in a sheepish voice you tell them "I'll have
> it ready in about another hour."
>
> Michael Corrigan
> Programmer
> Endora Digital Solutions
> 1900 S. Highland Avenue, Suite 200
> Lombard, IL 60148
> 630/627-5200 x-136
> 630/627-5255 Fax
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Benjamin Falloon
> To: CF-Community
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 1:58 PM
> Subject: Re: Download Text file - SOLVED???
>
>
> I can just see it!!!! (esp. the twitch)
> Benjamin
>
> ps... know how you feel... been through that kind of thing too many
> times
> myself
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 6:50 AM
> Subject: Re: Download Text file - SOLVED???
>
>
> > You thought THAT was funny. We just got around to testing it in
> I.E.
> > 5.x on a Mac and lo and behold, it wasn't working! It was trying to
> > download the actual .cfm template that was being loaded in the
> browser
> > so now we're trying to do a work around. When we were discussing
> this
> > page in our planning meetings all 4 of us came to a very quick
> > conclusion that we'll just make a link to the file and be done with
> it.
> > When I struggled with it, the senior developer, in the manner of
> John
> > Wayne coming to the rescue, said "just give it to me, I'll have it
> fixed
> > in like 10 minutes..." A day later and we're still trying to make
> the
> > damned thing work. He called the client yesterday, while I was out,
> > begging the client to let us change the format but the client said
> no
> > way! Then Brendan handed me the solution. It took me all of 10
> minutes
> > to adapt the code and voila! Then the senior developer, the John
> Wayne
> > guy who was more like Jerry Lewis after dealing with this, began his
> > testing on all of the different platforms and OS's and CRASH!!! The
> > solution? Use JavaScript to detect what they're using and then
> giving
> > them the appropriate instructions. Now, not only have I lost those
> four
> > hairs, but now I have developed a twitch in my left eye. See ya in
> the
> > loony bin!!!!
> >
> > Michael Corrigan
> > Programmer
> > Endora Digital Solutions
> > 1900 S. Highland Avenue, Suite 200
> > Lombard, IL 60148
> > 630/627-5200 x-136
> > 630/627-5255 Fax
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Benjamin Falloon
> > To: CF-Community
> > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 1:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: Download Text file - SOLVED!!
> >
> >
> > LOL!!!
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 5:07 AM
> > Subject: Re: Download Text file - SOLVED!!
> >
> >
> > > Much thanks to all for your help. I implemented Brendan's idea
> and
> > it
> > > worked.
> > >
> > > We had to save these things in text files because they are press
> > > releases and had to be kept that way. The client wanted a
> "Download
> > > now" button that was actually a hyperlink that was supposed to
> > simply
> > > download the file. The client was also very insistent that the
> page
> > not
> > > submit to a "Confirmation" page and wanted it to look as if it
> "just
> > did
> > > it without bouncing through a whole bunch of pages" So, I used
> a
> > cfif
> > > block to look for a certain parameter and passed the successful
> > value
> > > back through the same template and then executed the code as
> Brendan
> > > suggested. So it ended up like this.
> > >
> > > <cfif thisvariable eq "true">
> > > <cfheader NAME="Content-Disposition" VALUE="inline;
> > > filename=whateveryouwanttheresultingfilenametobe.txt">
> > > <cfcontent type="application/superrandomnoway"
> > > file="#expandpath("test.txt")#" deletefile="No">
> > > </cfif>
> > >
> > > ..
> > >
> > > <a
> > >
> >
> href="http://www.thispage.com/thispage.cfm?thisvariable=true";><img
> > > src="images/downloadimage.jpg"></a>
> > >
> > > Thanks again everyone for your help. I actually still have four
> > hairs
> > > left on my head. I plan on growing them really long and then
> doing
> > a
> > > combover.
> > >
> > > Michael Corrigan
> > > Programmer
> > > Endora Digital Solutions
> > > 1900 S. Highland Avenue, Suite 200
> > > Lombard, IL 60148
> > > 630/627-5200 x-136
> > > 630/627-5255 Fax
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Brendan Avery
> > > To: CF-Community
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 6:30 PM
> > > Subject: RE: Download Text file - HAHAHA
> > >
> > >
> > > <cfheader NAME="Content-Disposition" VALUE="inline;
> > > filename=whateveryouwanttheresultingfilenametobe.txt">
> > > <cfcontent type="application/superrandomnoway"
> > > file="#expandpath("test.txt")#" deletefile="No">
> > >
> > >
> > > i chose application/superrandomnoway cause it's unlikely to
> launch
> > any
> > > related apps.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 15:14
> > > To: CF-Community
> > > Subject: Re: Download Text file
> > >
> > >
> > > I guess you could use <cfcontent> and set some mime type that
> > would
> > > normaly
> > > cause a download prompt.
> > >
> > > Todd
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 4:47 PM
> > > Subject: Download Text file
> > >
> > >
> > > > OK, I know this is an HTML 101 question, but I can not for
> the
> > life
> > > of
> > > > me remember how to do this. How can I download a text file
> by
> > > simply
> > > > allowing the user to click on a link? Normally, you just
> treat
> > it
> > > like
> > > > any other non html file and the browser will invoke the
> explorer
> > > window
> > > > and give you the change to "Save as..." but the .txt file
> just
> > shows
> > > up
> > > > in the browser. Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks all,
> > > >
> > > > Michael Corrigan
> > > > Programmer
> > > > Endora Digital Solutions
> > > > 1900 S. Highland Avenue, Suite 200
> > > > Lombard, IL 60148
> > > > 630/627-5200 x-136
> > > > 630/627-5255 Fax
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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