George, I've been meaning to thank you, firstly for steering me in the right direction - csp/xml is a MUCH better solution than COM. I've now published a handful of reports this way with many more to come. And yes, the expiry property did the trick, so thanks x 2.
All the best, Mark. "George James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mark > It is almost certainly a problem with expiry. The document actually > gets read twice. Once by IE, which then passes it off to Excel. Excel > assumes the document will be in the client's local cache and attempts to > read it from there. However, the default headers sent by CSP set the > document to expire immediately so there is nothing stored in the cache. > > The solution is to set the CSP page's expiry property to some reasonable > value. > > Regards > George > > George James Software > VC/m - The force of change > www.georgejames.com > +44-1932-252568 > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Barney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Posted At: 16 August 2004 07:56 > > Posted To: Cach� Newsgroup > > Conversation: How do I populate Excel by Row > > Subject: Re: How do I populate Excel by Row > > > > > > are you using msie as browser? it seems msie has problems > > with this kind of job, when there is no expiration date/time > > set in the http headers. > > > > i had a similar problem once, and adding these headers solved them... > > > > > > > > > Yes. It brings up the "warning" screen which means that it > > knows that > > > some Excel content is on the way, which means that the pre-http > > > headers are being delivered. > > > > > > Same result on browser. In fact, same result if I run > > browser from RDP > > > session to Citrix server. > > >
