Shawn,
I had this problem too. What Dave said is right -- it IS a permissions
problem. He led me to this solution a couple of months ago:
I have a "PDFS" directory that is not in the web root for a certain web
application. I serve the PDF files to the user via <cfcontent ...> The
directory that contains these files needs to be accessible to the
IUSR_MACHINENAME account with READ rights only (for security reasons)
for cfcontent to work properly. If the files you are serving are
available through a web link, then you don't need to change any
permissions (not your case most likely) since the web accessible content
is already running under the IUSR context.
Andy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Grover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:52 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: CFContent problem - need urgent help
>
>
> We have a site that uses the CFContent tag for downloading files to
the
> user.
> We ran into problems with it today where it is giving us
> blank/empty files.
> If we check the physical file, everything is fine.
>
> Funny thing is that this is not happening for ALL files, just most.
Some
> files are behaving normally.
>
> We had the security patches for the Nimda worm applied today, and
> have since
> re-run the service packs for NT, IIS, and CF 4.5 (the server is
> CF 4.52, on
> an NT 4 box).
>
> Examining our code shows that it is most definently the CFCONTENT tag
> causing the problems. If we comment it out, and have our debugging
code
> running, all the debugging code executes just fine, and indicates
normal
> operation. Then the CFContent tag is executed, and it dies. I'm
> sure this
> is a server issue, and not a code issue (code was not changed prior to
the
> problems occuring).
>
> Any help/suggestions? I'm checking the forums and web for hints
> now. We'd
> like to avoid rebuilding the server if we can.
>
>
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