As a workaround, try saving the file as .xlsb and see what happens.
On Monday, 26 August 2013 21:06:33 UTC+10, Andrew Buchan wrote:
>
>
> I'm having a strange issue with a static file download. In the static
> folder I have a file with an xlsm extension, which I want users to be able
> to download via a hyperlink, which is created in the controller like so:
>
> report_file_name = "DESIGN_SPEND_VS_ESTIMATE.xlsm"
> ...
> DIV(P(A('Download report: %s' % report_file_name,
> _href=URL(r=request,c='static/downloads',f=report_file_name)))),
> ...
>
> This creates a download link which works fine in Google chrome, Fine in
> IE9, but not in IE8, where it tries to download the file with a .xlsx
> extension, which Excel cannot open, so it looks like I'm serving a corrupt
> file, which I'm not.
>
> I've read up on this and aside from the really useful advice of telling me
> not to use IE8 (the default browser in my client's, the only pointer I get
> is that it may be to do with MIME type sniffing in IE, and that I need to
> change .htaccess settings on the server, which is equally useless to me as
> I might not always be in control of the server. As it turns out, this app
> runs on rocket on Windows, and there's nothing in the rocket docs about
> mime types, and I don't know if setting a .htaccess would even work on
> Windows.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
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