Have you tried CFCONTENT?

In that, show them a HTML page (Loading..) then, use CFCONTENT underneath 
it to push the PDF back to the browser?

Scott


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 25/10/2004 11:05:28 AM:

> Hi,
> 
> I currently am streaming pdf files from a secure directory (above the 
> webroot) which all works great. The only problem I have is the client 
wants 
> a message to be displayed while the file is loading. My problem is as 
there 
> is a CFHeader telling the browser it is a PDF file the browser of course 

> immediately loads the plugin so nothing can be displayed while the file 
is 
> loading.
> 
> I know I could load a second popup with this information but i think 
this 
> looks clumsy and would be annoying. Another way to do it would be to 
show 
> the html page first then simply refresh to the streamed file but again 
why 
> make the user wait at all when most files will download pretty quickly.
> 
> Any suggestions for how I should handle this?
> 
> Cheers,
> Jason. 
> 
> 
> 
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