You can see response header in firefox by choosing Tools->Web Developer->Information-> View Response Headers
You will get something like below, lookout for Content-Type header Response Headers - http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/ Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 08:41:28 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.3.11 Vary: Host X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11 Content-Type: text/html Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 3916 X-Cache: MISS from proxy.your-isp.net Connection: keep-alive 200 OK Regards, Tahir Akhtar -----Original Message----- From: Tahir Akhtar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 1:33 PM To: 'POI Users List' Subject: RE: Excel Export Do you see file save/open dialog in browser. If you do, what happens if you save the downloaded file on local disk and open it? Also if you are seeing save/open dialog, what happens of you choose open? Does excel launch in this case or you see garbage within explorer? If excel do not launch, browser is not getting proper headers in http response. It can be due to mal-functioning proxy among other things. Try different browsers to see if anyone get its right. Regards, Tahir Akhtar -----Original Message----- From: Prasanna Balaji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 10:14 PM To: 'POI Users List' Subject: RE: Excel Export If I write to a file then it works fine but when I send it to client screen directly using servletoutputstream it get a garbage data. When I open the written .xls file manually I see all the data properly but when I open it through weblogic and send it out to the client screen using ServletOutputStream I get garbage data again. -----Original Message----- From: Tahir Akhtar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:00 PM To: 'POI Users List' Subject: RE: Excel Export Most probably issue is related to Content Type header. What happens if you write to a file on weblogic server with xls extension and open from there? If you can get it to work by writing to a file but not through servlet output stream, you need to check if web -----Original Message----- From: Prasanna Balaji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:47 PM To: 'POI Users List' Subject: Excel Export Hi, I used POI to create Excel Report but when I try to do export in WebLogic, I get some garbage data. It works fine in Tomcat and in WebSphere. response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel"); ServletOutputStream sosStream = response.getOutputStream(); //Writing WorkBook to output Stream wb.write(sosStream); sosStream.flush(); sosStream.close(); Any input is appreciated on this. Thanks, Prasanna --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.3/331 - Release Date: 5/3/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.3/331 - Release Date: 5/3/2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.4/332 - Release Date: 5/4/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.4/332 - Release Date: 5/4/2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.4/332 - Release Date: 5/4/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.4/332 - Release Date: 5/4/2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
