That clarifies it for me. Basically, the gist is that the image does not have a .cfm extension. It will have the extension of the appropriate file type and the use will be none the wiser.
What if I pull a jpg from a database and want to display that image? I *must* save the jpg to a physical file, then use CFLOCATION to that image. Right now, I just stream the jpg to the browser using a jpg content type. No physical file is involved. I guess it's a trade-off using either method. M!ke -----Original Message----- From: Hugo Ahlenius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 4:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: cfcontent vs cflocation Sorry for not being more clear here, and it was not really a question, I basically wanted to check if there were any major objections to it. For cases when you have the image lying in a web-accessible directory (could also be on another server), or when any dynamically created image (graphing tool, ArcIMS/mapserver, captcha etc) are dropped in a web-accessible directory, you should do a cflocation rather than a cfcontent output. That way you can do whatever processing you want before, and hand over the work to the web-server (doing what it does best - serving static content), instead of occupying a thread in cfmx with just outputting something. Not so important for small images, but anyways. Web browsers don't seem to have any problem at all with that (from just a quick test) -- they happily go through the request and receives the 302 header to the new location, and load+display the image. Another thing: This way you don't have to worry about setting the proper mime type headers, the web server should do that automatically. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:206820 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
