Cannot I just check for the mime-types supported by the browser (by checking
ENV{HTTP_ACCEPT}) and conditionally set the content type to
application/msexcel? Incidently, I discovered that this mime type works and
excel automatically converts the HTML to excel tables.What is confusing me, however, is that when I enumerate the environment variables, I see application/vnd.ms-excel (which does not work) and not application/msexcel (which does work). Thanks, Siegfried >-----Original Message----- >From: David Dorward,,, [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Dorward >Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 2:17 PM >To: beginners-cgi@perl.org >Subject: Re: How to use mime types for excel? > >On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:06:42PM -0600, Siegfried Heintze wrote: >> I saw a very simple demonstration last night (at the Boulder Java users >> group) where Scott Davis showed a very simple java server pages program that >> transmitted HTML table data to a browser resident instance of Microsoft >> Excel. IE automatically looked at the mime types and invoked MS Excell to >> convert the HTML to a spreadsheet. > >Don't do that. You've no idea what software the end user will be >using, so if you lie and claim that an HTML document is really an >Excel document then you can cause problems for people. > >If you want to generate Excel, then Perl has many fine modules to do >just that. > >(At a wild guess I'd say that perhaps you were encountering the IE >knows the Content-Type better then the server issue, and it was >realising that you Excel document was really an HTML document and >doing The "Right" Thing). > >-- >David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
