[thelist] Force download in ColdFusion?

Raymond Camden morpheus at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 22 15:15:14 CST 2001


CFCONTENT should work. The only issue is IE likes to load apps it recognizes in the
browser. You may be able to get around this by passing the unknown application type
thingy. (Sorry for being vague.)

-Ray

--- Minh Lee Goon <v7ac at sdsumus.sdstate.edu> wrote:
> > I'm looking for a way to do the same thing in ColdFusion, can anyone provide
> > pointers or a sample?
> 
> Because no CF code is given back to the web server by the CF server, I
> don't think there really is a way that CFML will force the file to
> download. The best you can do, I suppose, is to insert a paragraph of
> instructions for downloading the file (i.e. hold down SHIFT and click
> the link etc.)



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