What I'm trying to do is make my new boss happy! They like everything in
Excel.

I have a BUNCH of CGI scripts on a SUN Unix generating tons of very nice
HTML pages from data in an Oracle database.... I "need" to alternately be
able to generate the same pages in an Excel spreadsheet...

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks,

jwm 

-----Original Message-----
From: Wiggins d Anconia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:51 PM
To: Moon, John; CGI Beginners
Subject: Re: document type = application/vnd.ms-excel

> 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.

What are you really trying to do?

http://danconia.org

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