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• Using ColdFusion To Stream Files To The Client Without Loading The Entire File Into Memory

  Posted on Jul 1, 2012 at 11:09 AM

  @Eric, Totally understood that it is temporarily hijackable, but the client that bought the file has no incentive to go sharing the download link. The need to download such a huge file does not happen often, at most a few times per day. On Windows..so we'll have to work through some custo... read more »

• Using ColdFusion To Stream Files To The Client Without Loading The Entire File Into Memory

  Posted on Jul 1, 2012 at 8:36 AM

  @Eric, All the access control work was done prior to the CFLOCATION to the file. In our case, it was copied to a temporary location with a randomized path, although we are going to re-implement it with a randomized temporary link structure to allow direct downloading, to avoid having to co... read more »

• Using ColdFusion To Stream Files To The Client Without Loading The Entire File Into Memory

  Posted on Jun 30, 2012 at 11:52 PM

  <CFHEADER NAME="Content-Disposition" value='attachment; filename="myfile.zip"'> <CFLOCATION URL=" http://www.domain.com/myfile.zip "> After trying all kinds of diff... read more »

• Using ColdFusion To Stream Files To The Client Without Loading The Entire File Into Memory

  Posted on Jun 27, 2012 at 9:44 AM

  XSendFile technology should in no way be necessary. Coldfusion works great in serving up large files less than 1GB in size. There is some configured throttle setting somewhere either in IIS or in CF that is causing it to abort when it gets to 1GB of outbound content transfered. This should NOT... read more »

• Using ColdFusion To Stream Files To The Client Without Loading The Entire File Into Memory

  Posted on Mar 6, 2011 at 6:54 PM

  I tried the tag on Windows 2008 IIS 7, works GREAT for anything under 1GB download size. For larger files, it stops downloading right at 1GB. Any idea why? I've been pulling my hair out on this for a day now trying all of the usual searches for IIS 7 download limits. The problem happens for m... read more »