maybe a rewrite rule for *.doc | *.pdf
that redirects to a cfm page passing the file name as a parameter

The cfml has your blurb and a link to the another cfm page with the
cfcontent to push the file out
(so the rewrite rule doesnt go around in circles)


On Feb 12, 2008 2:13 PM, Ricardo Russon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> if the file was being serverd by cfcontent, then you could flag in the
> session if the download is to begin or if the page is to be displayed.
> then either display the download link or use js to start the download. ->
> or just server up the file if its a bot so that it can get indexed.
>
> just move the files, preferably somewhere outside the webroot and wait for
> google to re-index your site with the new cf links.
>
> On Feb 12, 2008 2:59 PM, Taco Fleur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if anyone has any bright ideas on the following.
> >
> > We have some Word and PDF documents that are indexed by Google. When a
> > user finds the document and click the link from Google, they'll immediately
> > download the document from our site and never see the site itself.
> >
> > This is not what we want, we'd like to display a page from our site
> > after the download started.
> >
> > Now, one thing I can think of doing, is replacing the indexed files with
> > a 404 that checks if the file exists, if it does, then display a link to the
> > file for download. However, that's not the most optimal, it would be nicer
> > if I could somehow serve the file up with cfcontent and then display a
> > page... But I think that is wishful thinking.....
> >
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