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ioscoldfusionicalendarapplication.cfc
Christopher Klaver
Christopher Klaver

Reputation: 11

application.cfc is adding a space at the end of .ics files

Edit: I was able to solve it, but not sure it is very elegant.

Originally, I was building the ICS content (calCreated), then outputing that after a cfheader and cfcontent tag. Here is what I came up with:

<cfset tempFile = getTempDirectory() & 'cal.ics'> <cffile action="write" file="#tempFile#" output="#calCreated#" fixnewline="No"> <cffile action="readBinary" file="#tempFile#" variable="calBinary"> <cfcontent type="text/calendar" reset="Yes" variable="#calBinary#"> <cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment; filename=CalendarItem.ics">

The only oddity is, as you can see, I have the filename specified, but it uploads calendarcreator.ics (the script file is calendarcreator.cfm) instead of the specified name.

Thanks for the responses and I would welcome any thoughts on the code.

Original post: I have a script that creates a .ics file, which worked fine until I moved to application.cfc, which adds a character to the end of the file. With that extra space, IOS will not recognize the file and won't open it.

I welcome any thoughts on how I can eliminate that space or on getting IOS to recognize the file.

I changed the output for the onRequest function in application.cfc to void, but it still adds that extra character.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 80

Answers (2)

BKBK
BKBK

Reputation: 484

What is the character-encoding of calCreated? I ask because, with <cffile action="write" file="#tempFile#" output="#calCreated#" fixnewline="No"> you are apparently writing text content to file. However, you are then reading it back as binary. Just a thought. In any case, here's what I think might solve the problem: use the attribute output="false" for the functions onRequestStart and onRequest and for any other functions involved in generating the content.

Upvotes: 0

Daemach
Daemach

Reputation: 457

I think both ACF and Lucee have whitespace auto-trimming options - Lucee, for sure.

Upvotes: 0

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