Forum OpenACS Development: Re: html table to excel

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4: Re: html table to excel (response to 1)
Posted by Mark Aufflick on
You can actually force IE (and some other browsers) to download instead of viewing inline for known file types.

You need to add a header like:

Content-disposition: attachment; filename=fname.ext

As per RFC 2183 http://www.nic.mil/ftp/rfc/rfc2183.txt

Famously, support for this is broken in IE 4.01, but like that matters these days (in 4.01 it's not honoured, but then you haven't lost anything).

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5: Re: html table to excel (response to 4)
Posted by Mark Aufflick on
hmm, the nic.mil site appears to be broken - see the rfc on netsys.com: http://www.netsys.com/rfc/rfc2183.txt