> In your "show a web page" just put a meta refresh to the cfm page
> that retreives the file. This is how almost every system out there does
> it (like sourceforge)
>
>
>
> The number "2" is the number of seconds to pause before attempting
> file download
>
That works very nicely. Thanks
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:49 PM, John Pullam wrote:
>
> I have an app in CF8 that needs to show a web page and then download a file
> that my user requested. Nothing too difficult. The page essentially tells
> them some stats on the file and acknowledges the request. I can'
Usually just creating a link to the cfheader content page will push the
download without changing the current page location. Basically this allows the
calling page to be downloaded but you could modify it to however you want.
Instead of using the application.cfc, just include it as your downloa
I assume that I can simulate it by reading the file and calculating the stats,
then redoing the entire cfquery on another page from a cflocation. In one of my
attempts, I split the current page up by moving the cfcontent and cfheader only
to a new page but that didn't work (acted as though it w
Try creating your stats page then cflocation to another page that pushes the
file out.
~Mahcsig
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:49 AM, John Pullam wrote:
>
> I have an app in CF8 that needs to show a web page and then download a file
> that my user requested. Nothing too difficult.
I have an app in CF8 that needs to show a web page and then download a file
that my user requested. Nothing too difficult. The page essentially tells them
some stats on the file and acknowledges the request. I can't find any way to do
both though.
As soon as I insert the following,
"How To Raise a "File Download" Dialog Box for a Known MIME Type"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q260519
Try that.
> I've got a .mht (multipart html) that I generated from powerpoint. My
> end result is to be able to fill in pieces of a powerpoint slide on
> the fly
I've got a .mht (multipart html) that I generated from powerpoint. My end
result is to be able to fill in pieces of a powerpoint slide on the fly with CF
to generate the appropriate .mht file to a user. However, if I pass it to the
user as an .mht, it tries to open in the browser. I added a and
You can use cfhttp to grab the file off another site and save it to your web
server.
Russ
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From: Rodger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:02 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Download a file
I want to automate downloading a file from a public webserver
I want to automate downloading a file from a public webserver.
I would prefer to save it to a client, but saving to the webserver will also
work.
Now I am using an http://server/file.txt>file.txt
and manually saving from a browser.
Any ideas for automating it from CF (or other common technologie
Hi All
I know this has been discussed a few time but I am not able to have a user download a file consistently with CF.
Here is the code I use
The file exists in the directory, what I get in IE instead of the file name is the CFM template name in the save as box, or just an error that it
I have an acrobat file 900K which I want to automatically start a download
to a client machine when a person clicks a link. Through v6.0 of CFMX, the
code listed below worked great for both IE 6 and NS6 & 7. Now, it seems
like since I've upgrade to CFMX 6.1 on the server, the file downloaded is 0
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