correction:
I got it working by adding the following line in my generator:
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=output.xls");
..but having to hard-code a parameter name in my generator as well as my
sitemap leads to a potential consistency problem.
Any better ideas?
TIA
Chris
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-----Original Message-----
From: Shaw, Chris
Sent: 11 April 2002 14:23
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Excel needs filename?
Hi,
I'm using the HSSFSerializer to generate an M$-Excel file....
The mime-type is set to: application/vnd.ms-excel
When I use Netscape it works perfectly....
But when I use IE it doesn't recognise the mime-type - it instead tries to
look at the filename....and the filename is basically junk.
I searched the archives and found that I could use perhaps overcomes this by
adding the following:
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=output");
or:
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;
filename=output.xls");
(though the 2nd option doesn't work for me).
However, I'm using my own generator to generate XML.....always XML.....and
then I have an if statement in my sitemap to choose a different
transfomer&serializer (HTML, PDF, Excel etc....) based upon an input
parameter.
My fallback solution is to also test for this parameter inside my generator
and, if Excel was chosen, add this line as above.
But this is a m-ugly solution....and not as easily maintainable....
What I can't understand is that my fo2pdf serializer doesn't have the same
problem...this works 100% whether in IE or Netscape.
I saw references in the mailing list archives about a link
http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html#faq-iepdfbug but the actual reference
in question does not appear on this page (anymore)....
Does anyone have any more info and/or a better solution to the problem?
TIA
Chris
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