I am trying to generate a web page with : print $q->header("application/vnd.ms-excel"),
This tries to launch Excel but I get the error: "File cannot be opened because: A declaration was not closed Line 1, Position 1 <"
When I use: print $q->header("text/html"),
The page displays correctly and I do not see any "open" or "unclosed" HTML...
If you print an excel header then you have to print excel formatted output, not HTML. There is no automatic conversion on either side of the connection (at least without a pretty nice plugin that I don't think has been written yet). There is a chance you could print an excel header and then output comma delimited data but I would be surprised if excel is that smart.
Excel will convert a CSV file to a spreadsheet, *only* if it knows that its supposed to be a CSV file. I opened a something.csv file in Excel and it worked just fine. When I renamed it to something.xls, Excel choked and crashed.
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