Hello David, As I am not a developer, I am speaking completely out of turn here. Having said that, I do not think that it wil be at all straightforward - even if it is possible - to add this feature. Workbooks that are protected in this manner are actually encrypted. Not surprisingly, the encryption algorithm that Microsoft use is not made public as far as I know; so you can imagine the challenge this presents.
Bugzilla from [email protected] wrote: > > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46796 > > > > > > --- Comment #8 from David Jimenez Vasquez <[email protected]> > 2009-03-05 20:21:44 PST --- > As Josh Micich said, the latest POI version didn't work either. > Despite of knowing it wouldn't work, i tried it anyway to view the > results. > I tried with the POI 3.2-FINAL and 3.5-beta5, both threw the same > exception, > org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RecordFormatException: Unable to construct > record > instance. > > I just have a reflexive question, no offense, but... Won't Apache POI have > this > feature? Will Apache POI always throw an exception whenever a JAVA program > try > to read the contents of a password protected workbook file? > > -- > Configure bugmail: > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You are the assignee for the bug. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/DO-NOT-REPLY--Bug-46796--New%3A-I-can-not-read-excel-password-protected-workbook-files-tp22317838p22367470.html Sent from the POI - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
