[thelist] IE 5/Mac File Download Behavior
.jeff
jeff at members.evolt.org
Thu Sep 5 02:18:01 CDT 2002
ben,
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> From: Ben Dyer
>
> Can someone explain this to me? On this page:
>
> <http://216.234.235.161/index.cfm?FuseAction=page&PageID=4>
>
> I have a list of files for downloading. Now, each link
> calls the script that pushes the file in question to the
> client-side (either it opens in the browser or it
> downloads the file).
>
> The script itself doesn't do anything spectacular. At
> the moment, it merely <CFLOCATION>s to the file.
>
> Now, everything works great in every browser I can find...
> except for IE5/Mac (specific version doesn't seem to
> matter and neither does OS 9/OS X). It opens the file
> (in "Preview" in OS X) after it saves the file on
> the desktop as the PDF, but gives it the name of
> "index.cfm," which means, at least on my machine at home,
> I can't reopen it without renaming it.
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this should do what you need. just replace the various variables with the appropriate values.
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition"
value="attachment; filename=#URLDecode(filename)#">
<cfcontent file="#full_path_to_file#"
type="application/unknown" >
good luck,
.jeff
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jeff at members.evolt.org
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