Action Canceled in Internet Explorer When Using CFCONTENT to Download File
August 30th, 2007
I’ve recently been troubleshooting an application that fails when run on Internet Explorer with the error “Action Canceled”. The page itself was pretty simple and something I had done many times before – it dynamically generated an RTF document and then prompted the user to download the file. After a few hours of minor tweaks to my code, and plenty of time scouring Google, it turns out that IE was generating this error because I was calling the page that was doing the download in a new window. Not sure why, but I guess this is a no-no. I changed my link to open in the current window instead of a new target and it immediately started working.
