Chris, I ended up punting back to something like that.. And if I can use a file:/// url to reference the file locally, everything works fine. However, with my version of ID, when I reference the website, it opens the file on my browser screen, and I get lots of gobblygook intermixed with the actual content! How can I tell IE that is should hand off to Excel any .xls files?
Is it something in IE or windows that needs to be set? Eric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 3:29 PM To: POI Users List Subject: RE: Open an EXCEL file from IE When the right way to do it won't work.... I was originally writing the xls to the servlet response stream. This proved to be wildly inconsistent across different browsers. IE even exhibited a few different behaviors (depending upon whether Excel was already open on the desktop,etc...) I ended up writing the bytes to a temp .xls file on the server and redirecting to that. In IE the xls opens up in the browser. It's a bit more overhead to do the IO obviously but it works consistently from a user standpoint - and that's all my user's care about ;) You need a background thread to remove the temp files after a period of time also. -Chris Eric Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/05/2002 03:00:55 PM Please respond to POI Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'POI Users List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Open an EXCEL file from IE I would love to see that as well.. I am having the same issue, I have to have the user rightclick the link and save to the desktop.. If there was a contrib directory, this type of servlet might be a good addition. Eric -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of anders Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Open an EXCEL file from IE I tried the suggestion in "HSSF: Can workbooks come up from IE?". I used a servlet to send an excel file to the client, But it does not work! Could somebody post an example? Thank you! Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
