Where can you find really good information about CFHEADER and the type of
values that can be used in the attribute fields (NAME and VALUE)? Like
value="inline;filename="mydocument.doc".
Thanks.
-Gary
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 12:15 PM
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> Subject: RE: cfcontent uncertainty
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>
> > <CFHEADER NAME="Content-Disposition" value="inline;
> > filename=D:\Attachments\ACF116.doc">
> > <CFCONTENT TYPE="application/unknown">this is a test
> >
> > I don't know what the significance of using that cfcontent
> > is, but I threw it in there. I also tried the page without
> > the cfcontent, and it results in a blank page with no source.
>
> The CFCONTENT tag tells the browser what MIME type the document is. By
> default, output generated by CFML is the MIME type text/html.
>
> The filename attribute in CFHEADER should just be the name of the file,
> without path information. This file name is the name that the browser will
> use to reference the file.
>
> When I clicked on the link, it worked fine, except that it didn't
> prompt me
> to save the file as "ACF116.doc", but rather as "test2.cfm". It did prompt
> me to save the file, though, and the saved file contained the
> text "this is
> a test", as it should.
>
> However, in your example earlier, I thought you were trying to download an
> existing file to the browser, rather than generate a new file dynamically.
> Here's how you'd do that, if your file was "d:\attachments\acf116.doc":
>
> <cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="inline;
> filename="mydocument.doc">
> <cfcontent type="application/unknown" file="d:\attachments\acf116.doc">
>
> This would retrieve the file from the attachments directory, and
> prompt the
> user to save it as mydocument.doc.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
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