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Microsoft Word Templates (.dot) become 4-byte files when trying to view or download

Description

After uploading a Microsoft Word Template (.dot) in the File Media Library, while it uploads with no errors (as the MIME type is application/msword) and appears fine on the server under the www\files\dmfile path, when trying to view or save the file, it opens as a 4-byte raw file.

However, Microsoft Word Documents (.doc) also upload correctly, but have no such problems when viewing them.

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IIS 6.0, Windows Server 2003, ColdFusion MX 7, MS SQL Server 2005

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Frederic Altorfer 
February 3, 2011 at 5:42 AM

Could reproduce this problem on CF8. CF9 was fine.
Anyway... fixed invalid mimetypes when downloading files.

Geoff Bowers 
March 19, 2008 at 11:11 PM

Please confirm with Mat that he's happy with the suggested change. There's been some recent improvements to addressing mime-type that may be applicable here.

John Tsouvallas 
March 4, 2008 at 3:52 AM

A workaround for this issue is to drop the mimeType variable and let ColdFusion handle the MIME types.

The following changes are to be made to "core/tags/farcry/download.cfm":

Comment out line 102: <cfset mimeType=getPageContext().getServletContext().getMimeType(filePath) />

Comment out type="#mimeType" from line 139: <cfcontent type="#mimeType#" file="#filepath#" deletefile="No" reset="Yes" />

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Created February 22, 2008 at 3:46 AM
Updated February 3, 2011 at 5:42 AM
Resolved February 3, 2011 at 5:42 AM