If you want to force the "Save File" dialog appear you can use "application/unknown" as the content type for cfcontent. At least that behaves on windows boxes.
EX: <cfcontent type="application/unknown"><cfoutput>#yourdata#</cfoutput> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Wil Genovese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually you can control the way a link opens if your trying to push a file > when a user clicks a link. If the link is to a coldfusion page that then > grabs the file sets header info and content type. > > I do this for mp3 files. > > download.cfm > --start file-- > <cfparam name="url.songname" default=""> > <cfif trim(url.songname) neq ""> > <cfset clipname = "#songname#.mp3"> > <cfset clipfolder = "/var/offsite/musicfolder/songs/"> > <cfif fileExists(#clipfolder##clipname#)> > <cfdirectory action="list" directory="#clipfolder#" filter="#clipname#" > name="fileSize"> > <cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="Attachment; > filename=#clipname#"> > <cfheader name="Content-Length" value="#fileSize.size#"> > <cfheader name="Expires" value="#Now()#"> > <cfcontent type="audio/mp3" file="#clipfolder##clipname#" > deletefile="No"> > </cfif> > </cfif> > --end file-- > > > Note the cfheader tag that has the filename. Value="Attachment; > filename=3clipname#"> > > The keyword "Attachment" forces ALL browsers to open the Save dialog. The > other option you can use is "Inline". This allows the browsers to open > files > like PDF's inline instead or forcing a download. > > I also grab the file size use cfdirectory so I can push that to the browser > as well. This allows the browser to properly display the download size, > estimated download time and download progress. > > > Wil Genovese > Sr. Web Application Developer > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314016 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
