There's a typo in the line of javascript at the bottom of this post. Of course it should read:
win=window.open(showpdf,'Style','width=800,height=500,resizable=yes'); -----Original Message----- >From: Peyton Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Apr 24, 2008 3:22 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [ACFUG Discuss] How Load Files from Outside the Web Directory? > > >Hello. My site needs to load PDFs which are located in a different directory >(in fact, on a different disk drive) than the one on which the site's web >pages reside. In developing this by working as localhost on my own desktop PC >at home, the following code works flawlessly: > ><cfcontent file = 'D:/Styles/553/55303.pdf'> > >where the web page containing the above line of code, and everything else in >the site, is on a subdirectory of C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/. Also, in real life the >parameter 'D:/Styles/553/55303.pdf' is a #variable# which can evaluate to that >path among others; I'm hard-coding it here to simplify the example. > >My problem is that this must work on a network where the target is in a >virtual directory on a different box. Since that virtual directory presents >itself to us humans as drive J, the value of the file attribute in the above ><cfcontent> tag should presumably be 'J:/553/55303.pdf'. But when I plug >'J:/553/55303.pdf' into the above tag, both Firefox(FF) and Internet >Explorer(IE) complain that the file does not exist. > >A different approach is suggested by the fact that Windows Explorer (a.k.a 'My >Computer') shows the 'real(?), or underlying(?) location corresponding to >virtual drive J to be "Styles on 'dsm=svr1-acr'". The Help desk at Leapfrog >(the company which built my client's network) suggested that I use >'//dsm-svr1-acr/553/55303.pdf' instead of 'J:/553/55303.pdf'. But when I try >that, FF says it 'can't establish a connection to the server at dsm-svr1-acr'; >and IE says 'Page cannot be displayed'. > >The third method I tried was to use <cflocation> istead of <cfcontent>, as >below: > ><cflocation url="J:/553/55303.pdf">. > >I would assume <cflocation> should be equivalent to the <cfcontent> tag in >this situation since, based on the Livedocs, the difference between the two >seems to be only that <cfcontent> provides extra capabilities such as >specifying the MIME type, loading from a variable instead of a file, and >deleting the file after its contents are loaded to the page; and none of those >capabilities are needed here. Is that right? > >In any case, when I try the code with <cflocation> as above, sometimes the PDF >is loaded or failure. When it does not work, FF sometimes interprets the >letter J as a protocol, and reports that it 'doesn't know how to open this >address because the protocol (J) isn't associated with any program'. At other >times it simply loads a blank page with no error message (based on my notes, >this seems to depend on whether the value of the url attribute was substituted >vs. hard-coded but I'm not sure of this). As to IE, when the <cflocation> >method does not work, I get a javascript message saying 'Error: Member not >found' (I neglected to mention that the page containing the <cfcontent> or ><cflocation> tag is actually loaded to a child window via the javascript code: > > win=window.open: (showpdf,'Style','width=800,height=500,resizable=yes'), > >where shopdf evaluates to the url of the page containing the <cfcontent> or ><cflocation> tag, with the path to the file as part of its query string. > >Can anyone shed light on what's happening here, and what I should be doing to >make this work? > >Thanks, > >Peyton > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------- >Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com > >To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ >http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > >For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists >Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ >List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com >------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
