cfcontent question

Hi,

All I am trying to do is this using cfcontent

<cfcontent
type = "application/zip"
file = " E:\Inetpub\staging\TestRoot\test.zip"
deleteFile = "No">

When I hit the cfm page, I get a dialog box that "You have chosen to open test.cfm, which is a winzip file." Its trying to download a cfm file instead of a zip file

Is it possible with a zip file?


It works for other file types like .doc, .gif, .pdf, .txt, .html etc, when I use the appropriate "type" value in cfcontent

Tx in advance.

rig

If you are downloading from a pc, use:
<CFHEADER NAME="Content-Disposition" VALUE="attachment; filename=test.zip">
<CFCONTENT TYPE="application/zip"
FILE=" E:\Inetpub\staging\TestRoot\test.zip"
DELETEFILE="yes">

If you are downloading from a mac, then using <a href> will do it. CFCONTENT and Macs dont seem to work. Even Ben Forta couldnt answer this when I had a problem with cfcontent and macs.
<A HREF=" E:\Inetpub\staging\TestRoot\test.zip">Download Zip File</A>

It's a long time since I last dealt with it, but don't forget about CGI.PathInfo. It's most reliable - your a href points to:

http://www.example.com/test.cfm/test.zip

and you just serve the zip file as you did before. This has a big advantage in that all browsers think it's just an ordinary zip file, but you can still use ColdFusion in the background.