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cfheader
Description
Generates custom HTTP response headers to return to the client.
Category
Data output tags, Page processing tags
Syntax
<cfheader
name = "header_name"
value = "header_value"
charset="charset">
or
<cfheader
statusCode = "status_code"
statusText = "status_text">
See also
cfcache, cfflush, cfhtmlhead, cfinclude, cfsetting, cfsilent, cfcontent
History
ColdFusion MX 6.1: Changed behavior for the name attribute:
cfheader name="Content-Disposition" uses the default file character encoding to encode this
header's value, so the name of a file can include characters in the character encoding used in the
file.
Attributes
Attribute Req/Opt Default Description
name Required if
statusCode not
specified
Header name
value Optional HTTP header value
charset Optional UTF-8 The character encoding in which to encode
the header value. The following list includes
commonly used values:
• utf-8
• iso-8859-1
• windows-1252
• us-ascii
• shift_jis
• iso-2022-jp
• euc-jp
• euc-kr
• big5
• euc-cn
• utf-16
For more information character encodings,
see:
www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html.