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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