User Guide

208 Chapter 2: ColdFusion Tags

cfheader

Description

Generates custom HTTP response headers to return to the client.

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 about character

encodings, see