As long as you use attachment as well as filename in the cfcontent you will never have a problem.
So it should something like this <cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="Attachment;FILENAME=#FileName#"> Regards, Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Grant [mailto:mgr...@modus.bz] > Sent: Friday, 25 February 2011 5:46 AM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: cfcontent and save as > > > This question comes up pretty often. I don't remember if there's actually a fix > or not. I remember people having problems despite using cfheader to define > content-type and disposition. > Perhaps some of these will help: > > http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:24528 > <http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf- > talk/thread.cfm/threadid:24528> > http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:8207 > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Richard White <rich...@j7is.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > for security we store xls documents in a non-web root folder. We then > > use a cfcontent tag to serve the file to the user. > > > > the problem is when the user clicks the link they are displayed a > > download dialogue and all is fine if they click 'open with ms excel', > > but if they click 'save as' it saves the .cfm file and not the xls > > file > > > > is there a way to save the xls file if the user clicks 'save as' > > > > thanks > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~| > Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! > http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion- > Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion > Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf- > talk/message.cfm/messageid:342585 > Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf- > talk/unsubscribe.cfm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:342586 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
