Re: Can the i cgi webserver handle redirect to .xls file andhave it open in Excel

Assuming that you are sending the correct mime type,
application/vnd.ms-excel is the official one, but others work, then it
is a setting on the clients browser that controls which program opens
the file.

Kevin Bucknum
Senior Programmer Analyst
MEDDATA/MEDTRON
Tel: 985-893-2550

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From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
midrange
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 8:41 PM
To: 'Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)'
Subject: [WEB400] Can the i cgi webserver handle redirect to .xls file

andhave

it open in Excel

User report request

They want to submit the report request and have the spreadsheet open

(in a

new window).

Not save it first, then find it, and then open .

Is this a IE / Chrome browser issue, or Apache, or javascript or what?

Need to do this without tweaking the pc - these are customers.

No Win IIS webserver in sight.

Years ago .xls or even .csv used to do this with a redirect (now

Chrome or IE

open as text files) ..

Pdfs still open by redirect.

What am I missing?



Jim



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