you could use a combination of <cfcontent> and <cfheader> to do this
for example <cfheader name="content-disposition" value="attachment;filename=MyFile.txt"> <cfcontent file="physicalPathToFile" type="text/plain"> this should do what you are talking about. -chris.alvarado [application developer] 4|Guys Interactive, Inc. ------------------------------------ http://www.4guys.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 4:45 PM Subject: Re: Download Text file > I think it depends on how the browser is set up to take it. Most servers > send text/plain for the content type of a .txt file. If you edit the mime > type in the server to be application/text or whatever, other than text/* it > will probably force the client to download the file. > > If that doesn't work, make a zip file ;) > > > At 03:47 PM 1/15/2002 -0600, you wrote: > >OK, I know this is an HTML 101 question, but I can not for the life of > >me remember how to do this. How can I download a text file by simply > >allowing the user to click on a link? Normally, you just treat it like > >any other non html file and the browser will invoke the explorer window > >and give you the change to "Save as..." but the .txt file just shows up > >in the browser. Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? > > > >Thanks all, > > > >Michael Corrigan > >Programmer > >Endora Digital Solutions > >1900 S. Highland Avenue, Suite 200 > >Lombard, IL 60148 > >630/627-5200 x-136 > >630/627-5255 Fax > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Training from the Source Step by Step ColdFusion http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201758474/houseoffusion Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
