Thanks Phil...that's going to help me for sure ;-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------------------------------------------------- Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com --------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 4:05 PM Subject: file download bug with Netscape 7 > --=====================_6494909==.ALT > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > I just ran across a bug with NS7 where it appends the file ext of the > template to the end of the filename to be downloaded. So if you have a > download.cfm template like > > <cfheader name="content-disposition" value="attachment; filename=#filename#"> > <cfcontent type="#FileType#" file="#Filepath#" deletefile="no"> > > and the filename is "installer.exe" it will appear in the save as dialogue > as "installer.exe.cfm" > > This is a bug in NS 7 which is documented at > > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172693 > > The fix is explained there which is to append a f_ext parameter to the url > so the url will be like > > > <http://example.com/download.php/test?f_ext=/test.doc>http://example.com/dow nload.cfm/test?f_ext=/test.doc > > Hope that helps someone, > -Phil > --=====================_6494909==.ALT > Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" > > <html> > <body> > I just ran across a bug with NS7 where it appends the file ext of the > template to the end of the filename to be downloaded. So if you > have a download.cfm template like<br><br> > <cfheader name="content-disposition" > value="attachment; filename=#filename#"><br> > <cfcontent type="#FileType#" file="#Filepath#" > deletefile="no"> <br><br> > and the filename is "installer.exe" it will appear in the save > as dialogue as "installer.exe.cfm"<br><br> > This is a bug in NS 7 which is documented at <br><br> > <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172693"; eudora="autourl">http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172693</a><br>< br> > The fix is explained there which is to append a f_ext parameter to the > url so the url will be like<br><br> > <br> > <pre><a href="http://example.com/download.php/test?f_ext=/test.doc";>http://example.c om/download.cfm/test?f_ext=/test.doc</a> > > </pre><font face="Courier New, Courier">Hope that helps someone,<br> > -Phil</font></body> > </html> > > --=====================_6494909==.ALT-- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
