Re^2: Launching Excel from a CGI

[rashley]

Think I got it:

sub retrieveFile
  {
    my $file = shift;
    if(not -e $file)
      {
        croak "Could not locate file: $file)";
      }

    if(not open(FH, $file))
      {
        croak "Could not open file: $file";
      }
    my $filesize = -s $file;

    ## Note type will need to change based on the type of file that is
    ## returned.
    print $cgi->header(-type=>'application/vnd.ms-excel',
                       -Content-Disposition=>"attachment; filename=$fi
+le", 
                       -Content_Length=>$filesize);

    while(<FH>)
      {
        print;
      }

    close FH;
  }