Streaming Text Using ColdFusion's CFContent Tag And The Variable Attribute

code-1.cfm

<!---
	Store the text you want to stream. This could be done
	here, or it could be gotten from a different part of
	the application.
--->
<cfsavecontent variable="strText">
	This is some cool text.
</cfsavecontent>

<!--- Set the header info to force that file attachment. --->
<cfheader
	name="Content-Disposition"
	value="attachment; filename=streamed_text.txt"
	/>

<!---
	Stream the text. To do so, we have to convert it to
	Base64 first, then convert that to binary.
--->
<cfcontent
	type="text/plain"
	reset="true"
	variable="#ToBinary( ToBase64( strText ) )#"
	/>