POI will not support older versions of EXcel. That is the reason you get that problem,

POI supported documents should start with following charachters ��ࡱ� 

Regards
Sudhakar


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> You may try separating the excel file first from the stream  then read
> it.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Troy McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:54 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Unable to read entire header
> 
> I have a big problem, and I am hoping for an easy solution or
> workaround.
> 
> I am trying to read an excel file using POI, but I get the following
> error:
> 
> java.io.IOException: Unable to read entire header; 279 bytes read;
> expected
> 512 bytes
>    at
> org.apache.poi.poifs.storage.HeaderBlockReader.<init><HeaderBlockReader.
> java
> :78>
>   ...
> 
> If I open the file in excel and resave it.. all is good.  Unfortunately
> I
> don't have this option.
> Is there some way to work around this. I am receiving the file as an
> InputStream via Http.
> 
> Troy
> 
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