May need some fiddeling to work - as I've stolen it from a PHP script, but the 
principle should 
be the same:

<cfheader name="Content-type" value="application/octet-stream">
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition">
<cfheader name="attachment">
<cfheader name="filename" value="excelfile.xls">

HTH

Mark
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Quoting James Cowperthwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> If I happened to be on a host who had disallowed the <cfcontent> tag and
> I was trying to serve a customer a file which they had just purchased,
> would there be an alternative way in coldfusion 4.5, 5 to deliver that
> file without exposing the path to the link? ie I want to be able to
> authenticate users before letting them download particular files.
> 
> Can MX do this another way?
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> Thanks
> James
> 
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