Re: CFContent and mapped drives?

2002-01-25 Thread DDB Lists
Even though you can get the cold fusion server to access files on a shared drive, by running cold fusion in an administrator account or some other user, this does not help for cfcontent because cfcontent runs in the context of the stub, in other words, it runs as the iis user and it is a lot more

RE: CFContent and mapped drives?

2002-01-25 Thread Herbener, Martin - School Information Technology
Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 2:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFContent and mapped drives? Even though you can get the cold fusion server to access files on a shared drive, by running cold fusion in an administrator account or some other user, this does

CFContent Delete File Error

2002-01-21 Thread Bernd VanSkiver
I am using cfheader and cfcontent to get the user to download a dynamically created file from the server and that is working great, but when I set the deletefile attribute to yes so that the file will be deleted after the user downloads it, it puts a CF Error in the file instead of sending

RE: CFContent Delete File Error

2002-01-21 Thread Steve Oliver
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 4:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: CFContent Delete File Error I am using cfheader and cfcontent to get the user to download a dynamically created file from the server and that is working great, but when I set the deletefile attribute to yes so

Re: CFContent Delete File Error

2002-01-21 Thread Bernd VanSkiver
That solved it, thanx Bernd VanSkiver [EMAIL PROTECTED] ColdFusion Developer - Original Message - From: Steve Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 4:06 PM Subject: RE: CFContent Delete File Error Yeah I had that same problem. You need

CFContent

2002-01-13 Thread Janine Jakim
to the processing page. (The processing page is using activepdf). On the 98 machines with IE 5.5 the user ends up having to log back into the system--very annoying. I was using the meta tag to call the pdf. I tried switching over to CFCONTENT but now the 98 machine gives the error -Error Locating Object Handler

RE: Cfcontent performance issues?

2002-01-06 Thread Dave Watts
Am I correct in assuming that an ISAPI extension would then apply to every site hosted on that machine? I'm sorry, I don't know much about them. You could use the ISAPI extension with whichever virtual servers you want. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice:

RE: Cfcontent performance issues?

2002-01-06 Thread Dave Watts
performance penalty. Hmmm... So is using CFCONTENT no more of a performance hit than if the pages were all .cfm pages anyway? I was just wondering if delivering pages using CFCONTENT was significantly slower than directly calling them as .cfm files. It shouldn't be, but I've never thought

Re: Cfcontent

2002-01-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I want to use cfcontent to serve up audio clips, problem is that the files are not on the same machine as the cf server. It seems that cfcontent does not like the use of shares or unc's to pick up the files. Can anyone confirm that tihs does or does not work? I set up cd with an account

Re: Cfcontent performance issues?

2002-01-04 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Kay Smoljak wrote: Hi all, I was looking through the list archives at recommedations for protecting images - ie, not allowing images files to be called directly from the browser. The main recommendations seem to involve CFCONTENT. The site I will be working on will require

Re: Cfcontent

2002-01-04 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Admin wrote: I want to use cfcontent to serve up audio clips, problem is that the files are not on the same machine as the cf server. It seems that cfcontent does not like the use of shares or unc's to pick up the files. Can anyone confirm that tihs does or does not work? I set up cd

RE: Cfcontent performance issues?

2002-01-04 Thread Dave Watts
I was looking through the list archives at recommedations for protecting images - ie, not allowing images files to be called directly from the browser. The main recommendations seem to involve CFCONTENT. The site I will be working on will require this, and will also potentially be quite

RE: Cfcontent performance issues?

2002-01-04 Thread Rick Osborne [Mojo]
Kay Smoljak asked: Also, the other recommendation was to get the web server to handle this. I will be on IIS5 on Win2K, on shared hosting, but my host is usually quite accomodating when it comes to setting things up for me. To which Dave Watts replied: You might be able to do something

RE: Cfcontent performance issues?

2002-01-04 Thread Kay Smoljak
2002 1:40 AM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Cc: 'Kay Smoljak'; 'Dave Watts' : Subject: RE: Cfcontent performance issues? : : : Kay Smoljak asked: : : Also, the other recommendation was to get the web server : to handle this. I will be on IIS5 on Win2K, on shared : hosting, but my : host is usually

RE: Cfcontent performance issues?

2002-01-04 Thread Kay Smoljak
performance penalty. Hmmm... So is using CFCONTENT no more of a performance hit than if the pages were all .cfm pages anyway? I was just wondering if delivering pages using CFCONTENT was significantly slower than directly calling them as .cfm files. I guess it's time to do some gettickcount() testing

Cfcontent performance issues?

2002-01-03 Thread Kay Smoljak
Hi all, I was looking through the list archives at recommedations for protecting images - ie, not allowing images files to be called directly from the browser. The main recommendations seem to involve CFCONTENT. The site I will be working on will require this, and will also potentially be quite

deleting and forwarding after cfcontent.

2001-12-21 Thread Larry Engleman
Hi all, Here's my setup. I have a bunch of files that we have hidden in a non-public FTP folder becuase we don't want just anyone having access. I'm currently using CFCONTENT with an explicit path to the file on my drive. This works fine. I would like to do two things after the user

RE: CFContent (and other options)

2001-12-13 Thread cf refactoring
Hi Justin, This sounds really interesting. Can you point me to a reference where I can learn how to build an apache module like the one you made? --- Justin Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We created an apache module for doing this. We intecept the .CFM request, check if it is the CFCONTENT

RE: CFContent (and other options)

2001-12-13 Thread Justin Greene
that handle things faster than Cold Fusion. Justin -Original Message- From: cf refactoring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 8:22 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFContent (and other options) Hi Justin, This sounds really interesting. Can you point me to a reference

CFCONTENT performance issue

2001-12-11 Thread bdavis
I need help solving a CFCONTENT performance issue. I am using CF4.5.1 SP1 on WinNT4.0 SP6 and IIS 4 (but se the same problem with CF 5, Win2000 and IIS5) I am trying to use CFCONTENT to display several (up to 20) GIF images on a page. This is to allow running authentication checks before

CFContent

2001-12-11 Thread Janine Jakim
I'm using CFCONTENT to call a pdf form- It does fine on MAC IE and most pc IE and Netscape. However, on one browser a 98 machine with IE5.5 I can't get the pdf to show. Instead there is the box and the msg says Error Locating Object Handler There is no viewer available for the type of object you

RE: CFContent

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Stewart
. I've since gone away from cfcontent as I experienced inconsistent results with that bastard of a tag. Mark -Original Message- From: Janine Jakim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 4:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: CFContent I'm using CFCONTENT to call a pdf form

Re: CFContent

2001-12-11 Thread BILLY CRAVENS
What MIME type are you passing? --- Billy Cravens - Original Message - From: Janine Jakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 2:59 PM Subject: CFContent I'm using CFCONTENT to call a pdf form- It does fine on MAC IE and most pc IE

RE: CFContent

2001-12-11 Thread Janine Jakim
I'm using application/pdf. Here's my code block CFCONTENT TYPE=application/pdf file=#Request.root#/PDFOutput/#Stu.LASTNAME#.PDF RESET=NO -Original Message- From: BILLY CRAVENS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 4:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFContent What

RE: CFContent (and other options)

2001-12-11 Thread Janine Jakim
doing report cards-it'll pull up individual ones but not for a whole class). It doesn't work on the wireless either. cfcontent works on almost everything, but the wireless and the few machines. On the wireless we get a msg about the index24 What's the better thing to use -Original Message

Re: CFContent

2001-12-11 Thread erica . vitina
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RE: CFContent (and other options)

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Stewart
as cfcontent, but it works for the little app we're doing. I've found the same thing - cfcontent works on most pc's, but there are those few that just keep having problems. We had a problem (and this was pretty consistent) where after you viewed 5 or 6 pdf's with cfcontent, your browser would lock-up. I've

RE: CFContent (and other options)

2001-12-11 Thread Justin Greene
We created an apache module for doing this. We intecept the .CFM request, check if it is the CFCONTENT page and if not, pass the request to Cold Fusion, if so, we handle the user authentication and return of data in the module. This allowed us the flexibility of building in Cold Fusion

Saving a word doc with cfcontent

2001-12-08 Thread Kay Smoljak
will be in the database with HTML markup already, which I can strip to get the plain text. That leaves Word. I thought that I could use cfcontent to do this... But now that I'm looking at the documentation, cfcontent seems to always push the file to the browser. This is not what I want. Is there any way I

Re: Saving a word doc with cfcontent

2001-12-08 Thread Max Paperno
Kay, CFCONTENT doesn't do any document conversion, which is what it sounds like you want to do. CFCONTENT is purely for pushing non-HTML content to a browser through a CF template (for example you want to build a protected download area for purchased files). If you already have the Word

RE: CFCONTENT CFHEADER- filename problem?

2001-12-05 Thread Michael Haggerty
I have been wrestling with the same issue for a while. There are two ways to change the name of the file I have found that are reliable: 1) The CFHEADER / CFCONTENT combo you may have already tried: CFHEADER NAME=Content-Disposition VALUE=attachment;filename=report.csv

CFCONTENT problem with Netscape 6.0

2001-12-05 Thread Bruce, Rodney (Contractor)
Hello all I hope someone might have run into this and know a way around it. This code works in I.E. 4.x+, and Netscape 4.5 But in Netscape 6.0 , the form and request scope vars are being dropped. CFCONTENT CFINCLUDE template=apage.cfm the form.vars and request.vars are fine before

cfcontent to protect a Word document

2001-11-19 Thread Greg Saunders
I'm trying something I thought would be simple: use cfcontent to control access to a word document. I have this: cfcontent file=d:\myTestDocument.doc type=application/msword deletefile=No But when I run the page, I get something that looks like the raw text (binary) of the document. I've

RE: Am I a crackhead: CFContent Weirdness

2001-11-13 Thread Craig Dudley
Linking o your download page like this works... Lets assume the download page is called dload.cfm dload.cfm/#DownloadFile#?file=#DownloadFile# dload.cfm needs to contain this line, seems to work fine on it's own. - cfcontent file=#request.filepath

Re: Using cfheader and cfcontent to open file in UltraEdit

2001-11-13 Thread phumes1
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:49:46 -0500 To: ColdFusion User Group From: phumes1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using cfheader and cfcontent to open file in UltraEdit Hi, I'm using cfheader and cfcontent to open a file in Ultraedit on my PC (client) from a link on the webserver. Opening the file

Re: Using cfheader and cfcontent to open file in UltraEdit

2001-11-13 Thread Jochem van Dieten
phumes1 wrote: I'm using cfheader and cfcontent to open a file in Ultraedit on my PC (client) from a link on the webserver. Opening the file is working great except for one thing. I want the proper path of the directory/filename to appear in my editor. RIght now I get the following path

RE: Am I a crackhead: CFContent Weirdness

2001-11-12 Thread Eric J Hoffman
CFHEADER NAME=Content-Disposition VALUE=inline; filename=#form.tempfilename# cfcontent type=application/unknown file=D:\blah\clientapps\marcon\archives\#form.tempfilename# It still comes up with the name of the calling template file instead of the file name! Am I still off? Eric J Hoffman Home

RE: Am I a crackhead: CFContent Weirdness

2001-11-12 Thread Duane Boudreau
what is your OS and SP level? Duane -Original Message- From: Eric J Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 4:49 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Am I a crackhead: CFContent Weirdness CFHEADER NAME=Content-Disposition VALUE=inline; filename=#form.tempfilename

RE: Am I a crackhead: CFContent Weirdness

2001-11-12 Thread Eric J Hoffman
: CFContent Weirdness what is your OS and SP level? Duane -Original Message- From: Eric J Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 4:49 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Am I a crackhead: CFContent Weirdness CFHEADER NAME=Content-Disposition VALUE=inline; filename

RE: Am I a crackhead: CFContent Weirdness

2001-11-12 Thread Duane Boudreau
a crackhead: CFContent Weirdness The host is CF 5 on a Win2000 box if I recall correctly. Eric J Hoffman Home of Vikings fans Worldwide! http://www.purplepride.org -Original Message- From: Duane Boudreau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 3:59 PM To: CF-Talk Subject

Re: cfcontent file naming

2001-11-03 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Brook Davies wrote: I had the same problem, until I added the cfheader tag with the filename attribute... cfcontent type=text/plain cfheader name=Content-Disposition value=attachment;filename=yourfilename.txt Typo I presume: cfheader name=Content-Disposition value

cfcontent file naming

2001-11-02 Thread Justin Hansen
Ok gang... I'm using to use CFCONTENT to deliver files from a non-web accessible directory. It works fine. The problem is the file name is always the page name that contains the CFCONTENT code. How do I get the download to use the original file name. There has to be something I'm missing here

RE: cfcontent file naming

2001-11-02 Thread Dave Watts
Ok gang... I'm using to use CFCONTENT to deliver files from a non-web accessible directory. It works fine. The problem is the file name is always the page name that contains the CFCONTENT code. How do I get the download to use the original file name. There has to be something I'm missing

RE: cfcontent file naming

2001-11-02 Thread Justin Hansen
Dead link... http://www.figleaf.com/demo/mimetest/ -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 3:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: cfcontent file naming Ok gang... I'm using to use CFCONTENT to deliver files from a non-web accessible

Re: cfcontent file naming

2001-11-02 Thread BILLY CRAVENS
works for me - Original Message - From: Justin Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 3:40 PM Subject: RE: cfcontent file naming Dead link... http://www.figleaf.com/demo/mimetest/ -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto

Re: cfcontent file naming

2001-11-02 Thread Brook Davies
I had the same problem, until I added the cfheader tag with the filename attribute... cfcontent type=text/plain cfheader name=Content-Disposition value=attachment;filename=yourfilename.txt Does that help? Brook Davies logiforms.com ~~ Get

CFCONTENT and PDF

2001-10-31 Thread Keen
I am running CF5 on a Win2K server and using the following code to display a pdf file: cfcontent type=application/pdf file=C:\rits\#form.myFile# deletefile=No If a browser from a Win2k machine is used then the pdf file is displayed without any problem. However when testing is done from

RE: CFCONTENT and PDF

2001-10-31 Thread Carlisle, Eric
Do the NT and 98 boxes have Adobe Acrobat (or another default PDF viewer) installed? EC -Original Message- From: Keen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 2:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: CFCONTENT and PDF I am running CF5 on a Win2K server and using

RE: CFCONTENT and PDF

2001-10-31 Thread Keen
Yes. I changed my code so that it now looks like CFHEADER NAME=content-disposition VALUE=inline; filename=#form.myFile# cfcontent type=application/pdf file=C:\rits\#form.myFile# deletefile=No Now all browsers display a file download dialog box. If you select open this file from current

Using CFCONTENT with Office XP

2001-10-30 Thread A . Little
Hi All, Has anyone else come across the following problem... I'm using cfcontent to display a powerpoint presentation in the browser. This method has worked fine so far, but we recently tried it on a W2K machine with Office XP installed and instead of displaying the presentation, a presentation

RE: Hiding files - cfhttp cfcontent

2001-10-26 Thread Dave Watts
to write a wrapper to fetch them. If you do need to secure access, then you may want this wrapper. In any case, you don't need to bother with the downloading aspects of CFCONTENT - your custom tag can fetch the WDDX packet from the remote server without receiving the HTTP response headers that browsers

RE: Hiding files - cfhttp cfcontent

2001-10-25 Thread Dave Watts
# cfcontent type=application/unknown file=c:\inetpub\wwwroot\bounty\affiliates\feeds\W#URL.ca# deletefile=no This is just on my local machine, but it's not ideal. This brought up a Downloading dialog box, but again it failed when I tried to call it from my custom tag via cfhttp. What I'd like

RE: Hiding files - cfhttp cfcontent

2001-10-24 Thread Dave Watts
. Here's how w.cfm looks at the moment: CFHEADER NAME=content-disposition VALUE=attachment; filename=#URL.ca# html body cfcontent type=application/unknown file=#URL.ca# deletefile=No On my local server, my custom tag wants to use cfhttp to call w.cfm such as www.myserver.com/w.cfm?ca

RE: CF 4 to CF 5 CFContent Causes Windows NT Error Number 5

2001-10-24 Thread Dave Watts
I have images on another server via a mapped drive being served to customers via CFContent. It worked with 4.0 but 5 causes Windows Nt Error Number 5. I'm not sure what Error 5 means, but my guess is that you had permissions set up so that either the CF 4 server ran as a non-SYSTEM user

Hiding files - cfhttp cfcontent

2001-10-23 Thread W Luke
how w.cfm looks at the moment: CFHEADER NAME=content-disposition VALUE=attachment; filename=#URL.ca# html body cfcontent type=application/unknown file=#URL.ca# deletefile=No On my local server, my custom tag wants to use cfhttp to call w.cfm such as www.myserver.com/w.cfm?ca=wddx.txt This should

CF 4 to CF 5 CFContent Causes Windows NT Error Number 5

2001-10-23 Thread Jeff Stevens
I have images on another server via a mapped drive being served to customers via CFContent. It worked with 4.0 but 5 causes Windows Nt Error Number 5. Any ideas? I must quit and come back tomorrow. Thanks, Jeff ~~ Get the mailserver

cfcontent - *old classic*

2001-10-21 Thread Rich Wild
*sigh* ok, I've got this old chestnut - *again* cfcontent type=application/unknown reset=YES CFHEADER NAME=content-disposition VALUE=attachment; filename=#original_doc_name# cfcontent file=#outside_root_path##doc_name# deletefile=No type=application/unknown Trying to get a file to download

cfcontent - *old classic*

2001-10-21 Thread Rich Wild
*sigh* ok, I've got this old chestnut - *again* cfcontent type=application/unknown reset=YES CFHEADER NAME=content-disposition VALUE=attachment; filename=#original_doc_name# cfcontent file=#outside_root_path##doc_name# deletefile=No type=application/unknown Trying to get a file to download

CFHEADER/CFCONTENT with IE vs Netscape

2001-10-04 Thread Tim Dempsey
Folks, I have the following two CF tags: cfheader name=content-disposition value=attachment; filename=#varFile# cfcontent type=application/pdf file=#varPath# deletefile=No When using IE (5.5), these two cause it to pop up the file download dialog box where I can choose to open

Delivering files with CFCONTENT

2001-09-30 Thread Allan Pichler
Hi all, I'm building a webmail client right now, and i can't seem to get the attachment part right. For some reason my CFCONTENT tag that prompts the user to save/open doesn't accept all extension. The case in point is a .psd file, but my mail client should be able to handle any extension

RE: Help needed with cfcontent

2001-09-29 Thread Dave Watts
Can anyone point me to documentation or articles that discuss these HTTP headers like content-disposition and what effect they have on the various browsers? and what other header values there are. Look for HTTP information here: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/ In addition, there's a useful

RE: protecting an images dir with cfcontent

2001-09-26 Thread Ben Whalley
What is the overhead of using CFContent to squirt pictures at the client over and above a standard img src=? Ben -- Ben Whalley, Radley Yeldar 326 City Road, London, EC1V 2SP

CFCONTENT, Excel and Word

2001-09-26 Thread Kay Smoljak
Hi all, I have two questions about generating Excel and Word files with CFCONTENT. 1. Is there a way to programmatically rename a worksheet cell in Excel? 2. I need to generate a Word file with an Excel object (also generated by CF) embedded. Is there any way to do this? I can't think of how

Recursively calling CFCONTENT

2001-09-24 Thread Boardwine, David L.
I have a list of PDF documents I want the user to be able to download using CFCONTENT. I've been unable to write the code to recursively call CFCONTENT since no code after that tag is executed. Is there a way to do this ? Should I be looking at some other method to accomplish this ? Any

RE: Recursively calling CFCONTENT

2001-09-24 Thread Dave Watts
I have a list of PDF documents I want the user to be able to download using CFCONTENT. I've been unable to write the code to recursively call CFCONTENT since no code after that tag is executed. Is there a way to do this? Should I be looking at some other method to accomplish this? Any

RE: CFContent problem - need urgent help

2001-09-20 Thread Dave Watts
We have a site that uses the CFContent tag for downloading files to the user. We ran into problems with it today where it is giving us blank/empty files. If we check the physical file, everything is fine. ... We had the security patches for the Nimda worm applied today, and have

RE: CFContent problem - need urgent help

2001-09-20 Thread Dave Watts
I'm not sure if we have those patches - do you know where I can find them? http://www.allaire.com/handlers/index.cfm?id=21566method=full Good luck! Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 ~~ Get the

RE: CFContent problem - need urgent help

2001-09-20 Thread Andrew Tyrone
Shawn, I had this problem too. What Dave said is right -- it IS a permissions problem. He led me to this solution a couple of months ago: I have a PDFS directory that is not in the web root for a certain web application. I serve the PDF files to the user via cfcontent ... The directory

CFContent problem - need urgent help

2001-09-19 Thread Shawn Grover
We have a site that uses the CFContent tag for downloading files to the user. We ran into problems with it today where it is giving us blank/empty files. If we check the physical file, everything is fine. Funny thing is that this is not happening for ALL files, just most. Some files

RE: Uses of CFContent??

2001-09-17 Thread Gary P. McNeel, Jr.
: Joshua Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 3:08 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Uses of CFContent?? Amen, there's nothing wrong with asking a question just for the sake of knowing the answer. Perhaps, but I think I'd be hard pressed to explain the proper use

Uses of CFContent??

2001-09-14 Thread Koo Pai Lao
hey guys, I always wanted to use this tag, but whata re the uses of it other than displaying a text file on a page, which can be done using the CFFILE tag using the WRITE action anyways? hehehehehe :) ~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list

RE: Uses of CFContent??

2001-09-14 Thread Dave Watts
hey guys, I always wanted to use this tag, but what are the uses of it other than displaying a text file on a page, which can be done using the CFFILE tag using the WRITE action anyways? It's used to send back non-HTML content to the browser, whether that content is dynamically generated or

Re: Uses of CFContent??

2001-09-14 Thread John Quarto-vonTivadar
browse a word document and word just opens it within your browser) - Original Message - From: Koo Pai Lao [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:45 PM Subject: Uses of CFContent?? hey guys, I always wanted to use this tag, but whata re the uses

Re: Uses of CFContent??

2001-09-14 Thread John Quarto-vonTivadar
On an unrelated note, it strikes me as odd that you want to use a tag for the sake of using a tag. You'll have better success as a programmer to instead focus on solving specific problems, using whatever tags are necessary to do so. I agree with Dave. you need the right tool for the right

Re: Uses of CFContent??

2001-09-14 Thread Owen Leonard
On an unrelated note, it strikes me as odd that you want to use a tag for the sake of using a tag. I agree with Dave. you need the right tool for the right job , not the right job for the right tool Sometimes it's not until we become adept at using a tool that we discover that we had a

RE: Uses of CFContent??

2001-09-14 Thread Dave Watts
On an unrelated note, it strikes me as odd that you want to use a tag for the sake of using a tag. I agree with Dave. you need the right tool for the right job, not the right job for the right tool Sometimes it's not until we become adept at using a tool that we discover that

RE: Uses of CFContent??

2001-09-14 Thread JSchlosser
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:38 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Uses of CFContent?? On an unrelated note, it strikes me as odd that you want to use a tag for the sake of using a tag. I agree with Dave. you need the right tool for the right job

Re: Uses of CFContent??

2001-09-14 Thread Kwang Suh
It is useful if you want to return something like an image from a database, as you can use CFCONTENT to tell the browser that it's an image being shown. It's also useful for transporting data via a gif. --- Koo Pai Lao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey guys, I always wanted to use this tag

RE: Uses of CFContent??

2001-09-14 Thread Joshua Miller
a problem. Furthermore, I think the screw here is deploying web applications and he obviously does that - thereby knowing what the screw is and making this whole argument moot. When I discovered what CFContent was, I immediately had a use for it, alas, I'd been pounding nails with a board all too

RE: Uses of CFContent??

2001-09-14 Thread JSchlosser
Subject: RE: Uses of CFContent?? Amen, there's nothing wrong with asking a question just for the sake of knowing the answer. Perhaps, but I think I'd be hard pressed to explain the proper use of a screwdriver to one who'd never seen or heard of a screw. Adeptness with a tool requires facing

RE: Uses of CFContent? (warning: long boring)

2001-09-14 Thread Dave Watts
Amen, there's nothing wrong with asking a question just for the sake of knowing the answer. Not to be argumentative, but I never said there was anything wrong with that. Well, I guess I will be argumentative. In fact, I was happy to provide a brief explanation of what you use CFCONTENT

RE: Uses of CFContent??

2001-09-14 Thread Paris Lundis
yeah scary. I have seen CFCONTENT used for protected pay type content... and for other filetypes to be handled... nothing else very fun... continue asking those questions... [finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present] [connecting people, places and things

RE: Uses of CFContent??

2001-09-14 Thread JSchlosser
: Friday, September 14, 2001 5:36 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Uses of CFContent?? yeah scary. I have seen CFCONTENT used for protected pay type content... and for other filetypes to be handled... nothing else very fun... continue asking those questions... [finding the future in the past

RE: Uses of CFContent? (warning: long boring)

2001-09-14 Thread Joshua Miller
talked down to. Joshua Miller Web Development::Programming Eagle Technologies Group, Inc. www.eagletgi.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 5:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Uses of CFContent? (warning: long

RE: Uses of CFContent? (warning: long boring)

2001-09-14 Thread Dave Watts
... Yes, you did answer his question, and perhaps your closing remarks were misconstrued, it just seems like a lot of help comes with the baggage of belittlement in this (and most programming-related) lists. A small price to pay, I suppose, for the value of the knowledge. Nothing

RE: Uses of CFContent??

2001-09-14 Thread Michael Wilson
Just explain the screw first... Mike -Original Message- Perhaps, but I think I'd be hard pressed to explain the proper use of a screwdriver to one who'd never seen or heard of a screw. Adeptness with a tool requires facing and understanding the challenges that the tool is

Re: CFContent and Excel

2001-09-11 Thread Aaron Rouse
AM Subject: CFContent and Excel Hi all, I'm trying to create an Excel file on the fly. I can generate the file no problem, but it needs to have certain column widths etc in order for it to display properly (it's for embedding in a Word doc). Do I have any control over column widths, fonts

Re: CFContent and Excel

2001-09-11 Thread Kay Smoljak
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:45:35 -0500, Aaron Rouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could generate your format in HTML and then grab that source and push that into a Excel file. Excel will keep the table cell widths and fonts from the HTML. Thanks, I hadn't thought of that. Will that allow me to

CFContent and Excel

2001-09-10 Thread Kay Smoljak
Hi all, I'm trying to create an Excel file on the fly. I can generate the file no problem, but it needs to have certain column widths etc in order for it to display properly (it's for embedding in a Word doc). Do I have any control over column widths, fonts etc? Thanks, K.

Re: Calling CFCONTENT generates 2 hits?

2001-09-07 Thread stas
PM Subject: Re: Calling CFCONTENT generates 2 hits? Thank you. I had to put in a crude work around by moving my INSERT query to the CFCONTENT page in question and ignoring this page in my main logging module. ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code

RE: Calling CFCONTENT generates 2 hits?

2001-09-07 Thread stas
Yes, security is the only thing that is stopping me from simply linking to files. -Original Message- From: Mark Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I've seen this happening with my apps that use cfcontent. I don't know if it's been consistent since I haven't been paying attention

RE: Calling CFCONTENT generates 2 hits?

2001-09-06 Thread Mark Stewart
I've seen this happening with my apps that use cfcontent. I don't know if it's been consistent since I haven't been paying attention to it. I will also say that I've been having nothing but problems with cfcontent using cf5. My browser keeps locking up every now and then - and it's not even

Re: Calling CFCONTENT generates 2 hits?

2001-09-06 Thread stas
Thank you. I had to put in a crude work around by moving my INSERT query to the CFCONTENT page in question and ignoring this page in my main logging module. - Original Message - From: Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'stas ' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday

RE: Calling CFCONTENT generates 2 hits?

2001-09-06 Thread Dave Watts
I'm capturing page hits into a database and anytime a page is called that has CFCONTENT in it I get two entries in my database. Is this a known behavior. The CFCONTENT page in question serves up a PDF file. I'm pretty sure this is known behavior specifically with PDF files, due to some

Calling CFCONTENT generates 2 hits?

2001-09-05 Thread stas
Hello, I'm capturing page hits into a database and anytime a page is called that has CFCONTENT in it I get two entries in my database. Is this a known behavior. The CFCONTENT page in question serves up a PDF file. Thanks! ~~ Structure your

Displaying an image with CFcontent

2001-09-04 Thread Carlisle, Eric
I'm trying to pull an image out on a database and display it without writing a file to the disk. I tried this... cfcontent type=image/jpeg cfoutput#toBinary(Base64imageFromDatabase)#/cfoutput And, of course, cfoutput won't let me do this because it wants a string, not a binary value. I could

RE: Displaying an image with CFcontent

2001-09-04 Thread Bryan Love
CFCONTENT type= file= to display. Bryan Love ACP Internet Application Developer Telecommunication Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Carlisle, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Downloading Files via CFContent

2001-08-07 Thread Craig Dudley
The cfcontent tag is fine. If that tag is in a file called dload.cfm, link to it like this.. dload.cfm/#filename#?file=#filename# It's a hack, but it works. -Original Message- From: Curtis C. Layton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 August 2001 18:21 To: CF-Talk Subject: Downloading

Re: Downloading Files via CFContent

2001-08-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try this: http://cfapostle.com/tests/cfcontent/ A HREF=Download.cfm/LocalPeople.xlsView Local People/A /// Download.cfm // HTML TITLEBeer is Good/TITLE BODY BGCOLOR=CC CFCONTENT TYPE=application/vnd.ms-excel TABLE BORDER=EECCEE TR

CFContent again.......

2001-08-07 Thread Critter
Hello CF-Talk, I am using cfcontent to push an xls sheet to the user, I have tried calling the template two ways. One thru a popup window, and the other thru the same frame. With the popup window, the users is pushed a .csv but the same code in the same frame the user is pushed

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