agreed... it's not feasible to just display the text file on the screen, or email? i.e. receipt / order confirmation.
-Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: 2 Zip or Not 2 Zip That is pretty much your only option. Since this is all done via url and only one file can be referenced in such a way. Here is a neat little custom tag for zipping from CF http://devex.macromedia.com/developer/gallery/info.cfm?ID=04AB8593 -63C0-11D5-83F600508B94F380&method=Full "Success is a journey, not a destination!!" Doug Brown ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owens, Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:52 AM Subject: 2 Zip or Not 2 Zip > I need to set up a process where by a user will select (buy, really) a > number of data files (songs, actually). These files will be downloaded onto > the user machine where a client-side application will manipulate them > further. As part of the process, we also need to generate a text that also > must be transferred to the client machine. > > I can only two ways to handle this ... force the user to click multiple > links to download each file, or run a server-side zip utility to zip > everything up before shipping it off to the client machine. > > The programmer building the client-side application doesn't like this second > option. He doesn't want to have to have the client machine unzip the file > before doing what his program needs to do. > > Is there a way to batch all of the needed files together in a single > download (using CF to do this) without zipping them together in any way? > > H. > > > __________________________________________________________________ ____ > Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm > FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
