Creating a page from which people can download a file

[Al_in_Littleton]

My client wants people to be able to download sermons from the church web site. They are delivered as .mp4 files so they can use them in IPods.

I have tried simply listing them (link is in the database) and telling them to right click on them. That works superbly in Firefox 1.5 and 2.0, but I get errors in Opera (latest version) and IE 7.

I have tried using CFCONTENT (code below) and it works great in Firefox 1.5, but not in Firefox 2.0, IE 7 or Opera.

Here's the code. Any help would be appreciated.


<cfoutput query="GetSermon">
<cfquery name="GetSermon" datasource="db">
Select * from sermons
WHERE sermon_id=#form.sermon_id#
</cfquery>

<cfset sermonfile =#sermon_link#>
<cfcontent type="application/x-unknown">
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment;filename=#sermonfile#">
<cfheader name="Content-Description" value="This is a sound file.">
<cflocation url=" http://www.trinitypres.us/tpc/sermons/#sermonfile#">
</cfoutput>

[Dan_Bracuk]

Take a look at the cgi variables. One of them might give you enough browser info to use if/else or case/switch logic with.

[Al_in_Littleton]

Another person suggested this:

download and .mp3 instead of an .mp4. If you use an .mp3, use the " audio/mpeg3" as the <CFContent> type

Further, take the <CFLocation> out.

End the code with a <cfabort> tag.

Thus the code looks like this:

<cfoutput query="GetSermon">


<cfset sermonfile =#sermon_link#>
<cfcontent type="application/audio/mpeg3">
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment;filename=#sermonfile#">
<cfheader name="Content-Description" value="This is a sound file.">
<!--- <cflocation url=" http://www.trinitypres.us/tpc/tpc/sermons/#sermonfile#"> --->
<cfabort>
</cfoutput>

It works with IE7, Firefox 2.0 and Opera 9.

Thanks for the assist -- not sure which CGI variables I would have checked.