Re: Force Download to a .xls file

[edan]

I use the following incantation, with success:

print $cgi->header(
  '-type' => "application/octet-stream; name=$file",
  '-Content-Disposition' => "attachment; filename=$file",
  '-Content-Transfer-Encoding' => "binary");

Note that $file is the basename, with no path - maybe that's all that's messing you up. In your case, it should just be "$xlsfile" I think.

[existem]

Just as a little side not to all this, i've finally managed to get it to work using this notation.

print "Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel\n";
print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename\n";
print "\n";

open    TMP, "$directory/$filename" or die "Error message here: $!\n";
binmode TMP;
binmode STDOUT;

print <TMP>;

Please note that the first bit just uses the basename of the file, so without the whole directory path. Whereas the second bit uses the $directory path so it's absolute on the file system. This little thing had me stumped for a while there, so thought i'd share incase others have the same problem.

Best of luck,
Tom