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 Posted by robert on 05/31/06 17:11 
<mukherjeesubrato@gmail.com> wrote in message  
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| If I change the application/vns.ms-excel to octet-stream it outputs the 
| result on the page itself. Not sure what is missing for saving it as 
| excel file. ? 
 
you aren't saving it as anything. you're having the browser perceive it as  
something. it makes a determination as to what action to take based on the  
headers you specify. 
 
try: 
 
content-type: application/force-download 
 
see if that helps. 
 
in the end, you can really only help a browser along its way...it will do  
what it wants to do or think it should do. is ie displaying it as an excel  
doc with in the browser at least?
 
  
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