renderData() replace cfheader/cfcontent?

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Hey all,
so we have an issue and thought maybe someone here could help me. CB 2.6.3, CF9, IE9.
we are using the following code example (from a ben nadel post):

This is some cool text.

This is suppose to open a dialog box to download the text file. In IE8 works great, but in IE9, it does not. I have no idea why, so thought maybe renderData function could replace our cfheader/content, but not sure…i have tried to throw it in a few places, but no luck…as you see we are using cfsavecontent to generate some content…in our real app that cfsavecontent has a lot more junk in it than simple text.

So, does renderData really replace cfheader/cfcontent, and would it be a better way to render a download box for excel/word docs?
If it is basically the same as cfheader/cfcontent, does anyone here have any thoughts to why the code above would not bring up a download box in IE9 but does in IE8 (also works in FF)?

Thanks for the info and any help on my issue.

dan

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If it works in IE8, have you tried compatability mode in IE9 for IE8?

If that works, then you could force a meta tag for IE9 to alwasy end up in IE8 compatability.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff966528(v=vs.85).aspx

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yeah tried that and it did not work. So, from your comment, this does not seem to be something you have run into before?

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Not really no, the only solution I could even think of is to give the full path to the file, other than that I am not sure what else to try. Apart from maybe whitespace before the cfcontent maybe.

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try sendFile() in the fileUtils plugin. maybe it works differently.