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
conv
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
> Exc
iday, 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
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:25:28AM -0600, Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> Cannot I just check for the mime-types supported by the browser (by checking
> ENV{HTTP_ACCEPT})
You'll find very few user agents which claim to support that
explicitly, the best you could hope for is that it includes a "*/*" to
