I saw something about this once. It pertained to downloading executable
files but the concept wuz the same. I think the way it wuz done wuz by using
<cfobject> but im not totally sure. Ill see if I can dig up the link for
you.
Mike
>From: Jeffry Houser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Slightly OT HTML question
>Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 04:27:00 -0500
>
>
> Maybe this is too complicated, but I would keep the original file names,
>and put it in a directory named '149284.'
>
> Although, if you don't want to try that approach you may want to link
>to another CFM page that renames the file and then links to it, either
>using javascript or a cflocation.
>
>
>Norman Elton wrote:
> >
> > Hello-
> >
> > I know this is slightly off topic, but it is related to HTML, so here it
> > goes:
> >
> > I keep an archive of files. A user uploads a file ("MyFile.doc") and it
>gets
> > dumped into a directory for storage. It gets renamed to a unique name
> > ("149284.doc") for storage, and the original filename is stored in the
> > database.
> >
> > Now the user wants to download the file. I can make a link to the file,
>but
> > it would be downloaded with the numeric name. Is there any way to
>somehow
> > "dynamically" rename the file so that the user doesn't have to rename it
> > manually?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Norman
> >
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