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Coldfusion Doc Download from Word Hyperlink

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March 5, 2010
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I am using cfheader/cfcontent to deliever documents from my server... this works great except when someone links to a doc file from Outlook or Word then it gives "cannot open specified file." If i take the link from Word or Outlook and paste it into a browser it works fine.

Thanks for any help

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JR__Bob__Dobbs-qSBHQ2

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It would be helpful to see your source code.

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<cfif isDefined("url.sales") and isnumeric(url.sales)>
    <cfset dObj = createObject("component","UDF.downloads")>
    <cfset FileName = dObj.salesDownloadRecord(url.sales)>
    <cfif FileName neq 0>
        <cfif FileName contains "/">
            <cflocation addtoken="no" url="#FileName#">
        <cfelse>
            <cfheader
                name="content-disposition"
                value="attachment; filename=#FileName#">
            <cfcontent
                type="application/pdf"
                file="C:\www\shared_library\#FileName#">
        </cfif>
       </cfif>
</cfif>

it is weird that it works all the time except when you link it from Word

JR__Bob__Dobbs-qSBHQ2

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I suspect that you need to change the value for the type attribute of CFCONTENT to match the MIME type for file format you are downloading.

You might try using the getMimeType from cflib.org to determine the MIME type to use.

http://www.cflib.org/udf/getMimeType

Note that I assume the problem is occuring when the block within CFELSE in your code is run.