Well I thought of having them all ZIP files but trying to make it where
the audience does not have to have WIN_ZIP or any ZIP compression software
loaded to access these files.
But so far I believe I have no choice.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Egan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 10:19 AM
Subject: RE: Anyone have any knowledge of CFCONTENT?
> It seems no matter what I do with text files or .cvs or whatever, they are
> opened when using cfcontent. What I've done, is give them a different
> extension and use the mime type of 'application/unknown'. That seems to
> work beautifully.
>
>
> Jason Egan
> Konnections, INC.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Adkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 6:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Anyone have any knowledge of CFCONTENT?
>
> I am trying to use CFContent to serve up files for downloading.
> I have various of file types ranging from TXT, XLS, EXE, ZIP, and DOC
> files.
> EXE and ZIP files are working correctly.
> However if I use TXT, XLS, and DOC files, they will be opened in the
> browser
> or I get a message of:
>
> ============
> HTTP Error 405
> 405 Method Not Allowed
>
> The method specified in the Request Line is not allowed for the resource
> identified by the request.
> Please ensure that you have the proper MIME type set up for the resource
> you
> are requesting.
>
> Please contact the server's administrator if this problem persists.
> ============
>
> I have XLS as : xls - application/vnd.ms-excel
> I have DOC as: doc - application/msword
> I have TXT as: txt - text/plain
>
> Do you think I should change those MIME Types to exe -
> application/x-msdownload.
> Or is there a better way?
>
> Please see the code below:
>
> First Page for displaying Download Button: This file works fine.
> Query DOES exist just not displaying Query.
>
> <cfoutput query="supportfiles">
> <tr>
> <td>#file_topic#</td>
> <td>#file_Desc#</td>
> <td align="center">
> <form action="support_file_download.cfm/#file_name#.exe"
> method="post">
> <input type="hidden" name="filename" value="#file_name#">
> <input type="submit" value="Download File" style="font-weight:
> bold;">
> </form>
> </td>
> </tr>
> </cfoutput>
>
>
> Second File: CF_Mimetype ( Custom File to get Mime Type from Database ):
> This file works fine.
>
> <cfset #ext# = #reverse(spanexcluding(reverse(attributes.file),"."))#>
> <cfquery name="GetMimeType" datasource="mime_types"
> sql="SELECT type FROM mime_types WHERE ext = '#ext#'">
> <cfif #getmimetype.recordcount# is 0>
> <cfset #caller.mime# = "unknown">
> <cfelse>
> <cfset #caller.mime# = #getmimetype.type#>
> </cfif>
>
> support_file_download.cfm
> This file gives error or downloads EXE and ZIP files:
>
> <cfset filename = "D:\Docs\Secure\Support\#filename#">
> <CF_MimeType FILE="#filename#">
> <cfcontent type="#mime#" file="#filename#" deletefile="No">
>
>
>
>
>
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