IE and linking to CFCONTENT

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I am having an issue with cfcontent and cfheader when generating an excel file. I have one page excel_content.cfm and another that links to it. in Firefox it works as I want, it gives the save dialog when clicking it, but in IE it opens it because its a recognized MIME type.

I found this page when looking to remedy it:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q260519/

But when I changed the name attribute of cfheader to attachment, it allowed the user to download a .cfm file that output the expected content of the excel file, but as an HTML table.

I am certain this isn't an uncommon feature. Has anyone found a method that works well?

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The following code should instruct even IE to enable you download myDataFile.xls as yourData.xls

<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment;filename=yourData.xls">
<cfcontent type="application/vnd.msexcel" file="c:\temp\XL\myDataFile.xls">

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The following code should instruct even IE to enable you download myDataFile.xls as yourData.xls

<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment;filename=yourData.xls">
<cfcontent type="application/vnd.msexcel" file="c:\temp\XL\myDataFile.xls">

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