You can tell the browser to treat the page as an attachment by setting the
content-disposition using CFHEADER

eg.

<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment;
filename=myFile.xls">
<cfcontent file="c:\documents\myFile.xls" type="application/vnd.ms-excel"
deletefile="No" >

In IE5 & 6 this will force the file to download and will default the
filename in the save as dialog to myFile.xls. Unfortunately IE4 thinks it
knows better and will display the file if it can, whatever you tell it you
or the user wants it to do.

Adrian


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adrian marshall
lead hat limited
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http://www.leadhat.co.uk/
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Aseem Mal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 8:16 PM
Subject: [ cf-dev ] Enforce download


Is there a way I can enforce downloading a given file (like a pdf
document or Excel sheet), so that the user is forced to download it and
not open the document withing the browser, like IE does for excel &
pdf's.

Someone, any ideas?

-Aseem.






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