How does one download with CF?

OR:

<cflocation url="ftp://username:password@domain.com/the_file.extension" addtoken = "no">

Just a thought ;)

HTH

I'm trying to download a windows media audi file and it just seems to open the file in the web browser and not save it on the machine. It does this with other types of files also. What if I want to download the audio file from the server and save it to the hard drive of the computer. Here's the code I'm using:

<cfheader name="content-disposition" value="attachment; filename=1.mpeg">
<cfcontent type="audio/mpeg" file="C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\1.mpeg">

The extension .mpeg usually goes with the MIME type video/mpeg. The extension that usually goes with audio/mpeg is .mp3. Also, have a think about what Ian99 said.

as long as you use it's real content type, it will open up in whatever the default setting is for that file type ( especially file types that have browser plugins or hooks) ... i.e. an MPEG file is going to open up in an audio player unless there is no audio player installed on that machine.

change the content type to something like "application/x-download"

if the mime type is unknown to the browser, it should download it ... if it is known, it should run as a downloadable file (possibly in the browser's downloader add-on)

There is always the good old anchor tag.

<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment; filename=music_sample.mp3">
<cfcontent type="audio/mpeg" file="c:\downloads\451ACD47E.mp3">

where c:\downloads\451ACD47E.mp3 is a file on the server and music_sample.mp3 is the name of the file the client will download.