I've had a decent luck by using
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="inline; filename=report.xls">
before the cfcontent tag.
HTH
Marlon
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From: Cold Fusion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:00 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: forcing downloads
Hi folks..
can anyone help us out with this one, it should be so simple and I just
can't accept all the hassle we've been having to try and figure it out.
What we want to do is have the user click a link to a cfm file, that cfm
file then returns a file (for arguements sake a .xls file) which starts to
download to the users machine (forcing download rather than returning to
browser).
We've tried using CFCONTENT and setting the type to unknown, this will
start the file downloading all right but the name that appears in the
dialog boxes is the name of the orginal cfm file that was called rather
than the name of the actual file (i.e. saves as "download.cfm" rather than
"file2download.xls" )
surely this is a simple operation? ... I really hope somebody can make me
look stoopid with the answer..
in hope
.jez
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