CFCONTENT

[nix4]

Hello, Is it possible to use <CFCONTENT> within a frame or table layout?
seems when I run my code (which is a pop up window), the <cfcontent> filles the
entire window. I'm attempting to include a side bar for glossary terms in the
pop up window along with the <cfcontent> output. Any suggestions?

[JeffZzang]

My project involves the following:

Customers will create power point presentations and save them as web pages.
This creates an index file and a subdirectory which has all the supporting
files (images, javascript, etc). For example, if I have a power point
presentation with several slides and images, etc, and I call it MyPres, it will
create a file called MyPres.htm, and a directory called MyPres_files that
contain all the images, etc. that support the presentation. There is a concrete
requirement and there is no way around this.

My question is, all of these files will be stored in web-inaccessible
directories/subdirectories of the server, for security reasons. I am trying to
write a cfm page that will display these "PowerPoint Saved As Web Page" pages.

I have tried using <CFCONTENT> to get the index file, which works fine, but
none of the links or images display correctly because they are contained in
subdirectories.

To generalize this question, how do you display content of not only files, but
files and their subdirectories to the client without having to put that content
in a web accessible folder?

Thanks.

[ladybug]

I'm using the following code to display a .pdf file in my browser:

<cfcontent type="application/pdf" file="D:\wwwroot\PDFConvert\temp.pdf">

this works fine on my development machine, but when i put the code on our
production machine it does not display the PDF in the browser, instead it pops
up a box that says

FileName: file.cfm
File Type: Adobe Acrobat Control For Active X
.....

My thought is something is wrong with the Active X viewer. however if i go
directly to the pdf using the url in the browser window it displays fine. Any
thoughts as to what would cause this to happen?

We are using MX 7, Server 2003, IIS 6

Thanks

[cf_menace]

Try using <cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="inline; filename=#myPDFName#"> instead.

I haven't had a problem with it.

[ladybug]

no luck. still getting the pop up.

i'm thinking it might be some kind of security setting on the production server that i can't find. it works fine on my development server though. :-)

[SafariTECH]

if your browser does not understand the mime type definition of "PDF" then it
will treat it as an unknown file and cause a forced download. Your browser may
also not have the reader plugin installed on the second machine, but has the
reader installed on the computer otherwise - this will also cause the browser
to force a download rather than view inline.

to start with, try <cfheader name="Content-Type" value="application/pdf">

next - verify that the PDF reader plugin is actually installed in the browser
that is causing the pop-ups

is this second machine possibly a Win98 or earlier OS?

[ladybug]

the plug in is installed. like i mentioned if i go to the url directly the PDF
displays just fine.([url]www.mywebserver.com/PDFConvert/temp.pdf[/url]) The code I am
using works on every machine except when installed our production server. (win
2003, iis 6 cfmx7) The cfcontent tag acts screwy for all types of files on
production. it won't display .xls either. I doubled checked and yes it is
enabled in the coldfusion administrator.

if i set deletefile="yes" cfcontent does delete the file it just doesn't
display the file to the browser. so wouldn't that indicate that the tag is
executing? I'm stumped, my best thought is a security restriction that is set
on the production server.... i've looked trough IIS and i'm not able to see
anything that is set differently then the other machines. i'm still working on
a solution for this!

[Muwa]

I'm using CFMX 6.1 and cfcontent to pull a .pdf from a directory to hide it's
actual location.

<cfcontent type="application/pdf"
file="c:\files\filename.pdf" deletefile="no" reset="no" />

After the user downloads the document, they try and open it in Adobe Acrobat,
they get the following error message: Adobe Reader could not open
"filename.pdf" because it is either not a supported file type or because the
file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and
wasn't correctly decoded).

If I download the file directly via ftp, it works fine. Any ideas?

[Muwa]

The directory link was wrong. I was also using CFHEADER to force the browser
to recognize the doc as a pdf and download it. However, since the directory
was wrong, the file it was downloading, wasn't really a pdf.

Problem solved.