Thank you all for your response.
Rick's suggestion worked using <cfheader name="Content-Disposition"
value="inline; filename=#url.file#"> for both IE and NS.
Thank you!
Christian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 3:06 PM
Subject: RE: CFCONTENT
> I've actually dealt with this allot. Here's the solution that I came up
with
> which seems to work the best:
>
> <cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment;
> filename=#url.file#">
>
> <CFIF HTTP_USER_AGENT CONTAINS "MSIE">
> <CFCONTENT TYPE="#mimetype#" FILE="#path##url.file#">
> <CFELSE>
> <CFCONTENT TYPE="application/unknown" FILE="#path##url.file#">
> </CFIF>
>
> I found inconsistencies between Netscape and IE, so I had to use this
> conditional code for each possibility. For IE you need to supply the mime
> type of the document but for Netscape you should supply the mime type
> "application/unknown" no matter what the document type is. You might have
to
> play with these options to get the result you want. I also use this for
> displaying only:
>
> <cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="inline; filename=#url.file#">
> <CFCONTENT TYPE="#mimetype#" FILE="e:\WEBDOCS\STANT#doc_path##url.file#">
>
> I found it worked well to secure documents outside of the web directory
that
> way.
>
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Wip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 2:11 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: CFCONTENT
>
>
> I need some help...
>
> I would like to use the CFCONTENT tag (or equivalent tag) to download
> spreadsheets. However, I need to have the actual spreadsheet name rather
> than the cf template name appear as the default "save as" name.
>
> For example, if I call MY_FILE.XLS in a CFCONTENT tag located in
> SOME_CF.CFM, the default "save as" name offered by the browser will be
> SOME_CF.CFM rather than MY_FILE.XLS...
>
> For security reasons I don't want to give the client the straight URL to
the
> actual document.
>
> Any suggestions, custom tags, etc?
>
> Thanks, Christian.
>
>
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