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Send image to browser with <cfcontent> not download prompt

Mar 2, 2011 11:30 AM

I'm sending an image to be downloaded using cfcontent

 

<cfheader name="Content-disposition" value="attachment;filename=#getit.file#">

<cfcontent type="image/jpg" file="#physicalpath#\#getit.file#">

 

Can I have the image sent to the browser instead of a download prompt?

 

1093 Views   8 Replies   Latest reply: Owain North, Mar 2, 2011 11:26 PM
 
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  • Dan Bracuk
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    1. Dan Bracuk,
    Mar 2, 2011 11:46 AM   in reply to lovewebdev
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    <img>

     
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  • Adam Cameron.
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    2. Adam Cameron.,
    Mar 2, 2011 11:53 AM   in reply to lovewebdev
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    You are •specifically telling it• to be treated as an attachment. If you don't want to do that, then stop telling it to!

     

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    Adam

     
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  • Owain North
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    3. Owain North,
    Mar 2, 2011 1:38 PM   in reply to lovewebdev
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    I really do hope we're missing something here.

     
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  • lovewebdev
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    4. lovewebdev,
    Mar 2, 2011 2:59 PM   in reply to lovewebdev
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    It's because the images are being stored in a folder above the public root folder...

     

    Could I just put that as the value of an <img> tag?

     
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  • Dave Watts
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    5. Dave Watts,
    Mar 2, 2011 5:01 PM   in reply to lovewebdev
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    If the image isn't accessible directly via HTTP, you can use CF to serve it. Your CF page would have the CFCONTENT tag as you showed in your original post, then you'd use IMG tags in other pages pointing to that CF page:

     

    <img src="myimage.cfm?id=whatever"/>

     

    You wouldn't need the CFHEADER to specify it as an attachment, though - that's only for when you want to prompt the user to download a file without having it handled natively by the browser.

     

    Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

    http://www.figleaf.com/

    http://training.figleaf.com/

     
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  • lovewebdev
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    6. lovewebdev,
    Mar 2, 2011 6:29 PM   in reply to Dave Watts
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    Awesome, that actually worked really well. i didn't know you could do that.

     

    Is there a way to do something similar to documents: so say a pdf or word loads in the browser as opposed to download as well

     
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  • ilssac
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    7. ilssac,
    Mar 2, 2011 8:46 PM   in reply to lovewebdev
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    The same technique works just as well with any type of content, pdf, word, excel, ectra.

     

    But whether it will open in the browser or be a download depends greatly on the user, what browser they are using, what plugins they have in that browser and how they have it configured.  But, of course, all of that is out of your control.  The most you can do is use the code provided to suggest how the browser should handle the content.

     
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  • Owain North
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    8. Owain North,
    Mar 2, 2011 11:26 PM   in reply to lovewebdev
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    It might also be worth you looking into the CFIMAGE tag with the action="flushtobrowser" attribute, just for completeness.

     
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