I should clarify that I meant that the IFRAME would contain the cfm
template that uses CFCONTENT to stream the PDF - just in case that
isn't as obvious as I initially thought :D

Abhi


On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:23:15 +1000, Abhijit Hiremagalur
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Jason
> 
> I'm not sure if this will actually work because I haven't tried it, I
> have a feeling it just might though.
> 
> You could display a HTML page with whatever message you like and
> include an invisible (tiny) IFRAME in that page which basically
> contains just the PDF. Now this might cause an issue if the browser
> attempts to open the PDF in the browser window itself, even then you
> could just incorporate a larger IFRAME if you want to cater for this
> instance.
> 
> Would love to know if this actually works :)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Abhi
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:05:28 +1000, Jason Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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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