[cfaussie] RE: CFCONTENT Tag Disabled by ISP

[gary menzel]

You can put multiple tables in the file.

Now...... if only it recognised <DIV> as a mechanism to create multiple sheets!!!!


Gary Menzel
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/04/2003 10:45:06 AM:

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> Can I just add that you don't have to have the content in CSV format...
> Excel (Office 2000 anyway, haven't tested other versions) has this
> wonderful undocumented feature that lets you open a HTML file with an .xls
> extension and display it as if it was an ordinary spreadsheet (with the
> possible limitation that the HTML content should consist of a single table
> only). We use this method as it allows formatted text, spanned columns /
> rows, etc in the spreadsheet -- and it's easy to do.
>
> Cheers,
> Vik
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> Barry,
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> If you're still in an intranet / IE environment, then the code in my
> original post will work beautifully.
> Just follow it up with the spreadsheet content in CSV format.
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> If I find a way to do it without CFContent, I'll post it.
>
> Phil.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Beattie, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CFAussie Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:45 AM
> Subject: [cfaussie] RE: CFCONTENT Tag Disabled by ISP
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> > if you do get this going, ca you be tempted in dropping a line on how it
> > worked?
> >
> > this used to be easy in an ASP/intranet(IE5 only) environment but I've
> tried
> > with CF and gave up (more important stuff to do - not really CF fault)
> >
> > cheers
> > barry.b
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phil Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, 4 April 2003 9:38 AM
> > To: CFAussie Mailing List
> > Subject: [cfaussie] RE: CFCONTENT Tag Disabled by ISP
> >
> >
> > Thanks Lindsay.
> >
> > I'll play around with CFHeader and see how far I get.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Phil.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lindsay Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "CFAussie Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:33 AM
> > Subject: [cfaussie] RE: CFCONTENT Tag Disabled by ISP
> >
> >
> > >
> > > > a) Are they being reasonable, or paranoid?
> > >
> > > I'd say reasonable, if it's a shared hosting environment.
> > >
> > > > b) Can anyone provide reasons as to why is does / does not need to be
> > > disabled?
> > >
> > > Just think of the fun your friendly neigbourhood script kiddie could
> have
> > > with:
> > >
> > > <cfcontent file="C:\Inetpub\[your site]\index.cfm" deletefile="Yes"/>
> > >
> > > I'd imagine there would be some way (using sandboxes or whatever) to
> > > restrict the use of <cfcontent> etc. to certain directories? ie. just
> the
> > > user's home directory.
> > >
> > > > c) Assuming I have no joy in getting the tag enabled, does anyone
> have
> a
> > > good workaround for creating and
> > > > returning  info suitable for loading into a spreadsheet?
> > >
> > > In theory, you could send a content-type http header using <cfheader>:
> > > <cfheader name="Content-type" value="application/vnd.ms-excel"/>
> > >
> > > But in my (rather limited) experiments, this doesn't work quite as
> > planned.
> > >
> > > I got nothing :)
> > >
> > > --
> > >  Lindsay Evans.
> > >  Developer,
> > >  Red Square Productions.
> > >
> > >  [p] 8596.4000
> > >  [f] 8596.4001
> > >  [w] www.redsquare.com.au
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Phil Evans
> > > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:09 AM
> > > To: CFAussie Mailing List
> > > Subject: [cfaussie] CFCONTENT Tag Disabled by ISP
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I have app that is supposed to return a spreadsheet back to the
> browser.
> > > Works beautifully on dev PC, with code being
> > >
> > > <CFHEADER NAME="Content-Disposition" VALUE="inline;
> > filename=#myfilename#">
> > > <CFCONTENT TYPE="application/vnd.ms-excel">...
> > >
> > > I loaded it up to a large, central ISP, and then found that the
> CFCONTENT
> > > tag was disabled.
> > > I contacted the ISP, who responded with
> > >
> > > "Unfortunately the CFCONTENT tag has been disabled on our shared
> hosting
> > > platform by our Senior Technicians, due to security reasons.
> Unfortunately
> > > it cannot be enabled."
> > >
> > > I need to know
> > >
> > > a) Are they being reasonable, or paranoid?
> > > b) Can anyone provide reasons as to why is does / does not need to be
> > > disabled?
> > > c) Assuming I have no joy in getting the tag enabled, does anyone have
> a
> > > good workaround for creating and returning info suitable for loading
> into
> > a
> > > spreadsheet?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Phil.
> > >
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