Jerry,
No way to know. CFcontent will help you send a file to a users browser by
giving you granular level control over what headers the webserver sends to
the users browser. (essentially server saying to browser, "Hey browser, the
type of file I'm sending you is.. MS Excel") To accomplish your goal you
would have to find some sort of client side script that would be given an
immense amount of control over their system in order to be able to find out
if they can open it. In short, a security nightmare and maybe impossible.
Aaron
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Tolentino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 2:49 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Checking if the user can open a FILE of a certain MIME type
Here's my problem:
I need to find a way to check if the user (which may be on a windows
or unix system) can successfully open a file.
This may be any file like WORD, EXCEL, PDF, Microsoft Project... etc.
This sounds pretty silly to me...but my boss would like to detect this
situation and issue a warning to the user before
he/she downloads a file and possibly gets an error.
Do you know of any tools or even if cold fusion could do this
(possibly through the CFCONTENT tag)?
Any help would be kindly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Jerry T.
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