Re: Opening Excel from AS400

If you are serving an HTML page and you want to export to excel, I've found
that you can just add content-disposition below the content-type.

Content-type: text/html
Content-disposition: attachment; filename=SomeFileName.xls


"attachment" tells the browser to download the page rather than render it
in the browser.

Just for some background (may not have anything to do with this
conversation).

I'm using CGIDEV2 to create my webpages. On my reports, I have a link that
says export to excel. When this link is clicked, I run the same program
again but only output the table that holds the data to export. But because
I have the content-disposition in my top section, it asks me to either save
or open the file. I do not write out to the IFS at all.
Since the programs do not take long to run, it doesn't hurt to rerun the
program again to export to excel.


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Why STRPCCMD? Why not just send the Excel file to be opened directly by
Excel? What am I missing?

But.. even if you did use STRPCCMD, how is that less secure than opening
up your computer's hard drive to the Internet?!

Mike Cunningham wrote:

Someone in this string said something about using HTTP download
instead of IFS. How exactly did you see that working? Write the file
to the IFS in a location available to Apache, then use STRPCCMD to
launch IE and give IE the url to the apache webservers path to the
IFS, then IE will launch Excel because the file is a .csv? Sounds
much less secure than using an IFS drive mapping that only an
authenticated user can map to.

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