Its probably the much hated latest version of IIS. It parses the URL from right
to left, instead of left to right.

Its technically correct, but it stuffs up that particular trick (i.e. the only
way to get some browsers to use the right filename).

David Cummins

"Chen, Yung-Chih (CIT)" wrote:
> 
> thank you for suggestion, but  why this code
> <cfform action="download.cfm/download.csv" method="POST" name="sform">
> 
> works on Netscape webserver, but does not work on IIS
> when user click submit it will let use save that file as download.csv!
> 
> YC
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gassner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 1:03 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Need help on http Error 405
> 
> Error 405 means that IIS doesn't understand the requests's file extension
> and can't properly dispatch it to the ColdFusion server.  Your action
> attribute implies a file extension ".cfm/download.csv" which is meaningless
> to the web server.
> 
> If you want the user to be able to download a file called download.csv, just
> call the download.cfm page; in that page, include the commands:
> 
> <CFHEADER NAME="Content-Disposition" VALUE="Filename=download.csv">
> <CFCONTENT TYPE="application/excel" FILE="[fullpath]download.csv">
> 
> where the file is the complete path and filename in the server file system.
> 
> Also, note that the ENCTYPE attribute in the form is for uploading a file,
> not downloading one.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chen, Yung-Chih (CIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 6:32 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: Need help on http Error 405
> >
> >
> > hi,
> > I have add enctype="multipart/form-data"
> > <cfform action="download.cfm/download.csv" method="POST" name="sform"
> > enctype="multipart/form-data" onSubmit="return ck_submit();"
> > onReset="clear_lists();">
> >
> > but I am still getting http Error 405 error, and suggestion
> >
> > YC
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Bernard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:02 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: Chen, Yung-Chih (CIT)
> > Subject: RE: Need help on http Error 405
> >
> >
> > You need to add "Type=multipart/form-data" to the FORM tag, double check
> > spelling ;)
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chen, Yung-Chih (CIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 3:58 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: Need help on http Error 405
> >
> > I have a page allow user to download data in CSV file extension.
> > it was working at the production server(Unix, netscape web server)
> > but does not work on my developement server (NT , IIS 4)
> > here is the code:
> > <form action="download.cfm/download.csv" method="post">
> >
> > when user click submit, it will call download.cfm to download
> > data and open
> > download.csv with MS Excel.
> >
> >
> > Is there something I need to do on the Webserver?
> >
> > any suggestion will be helpful!!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > YC
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