RE: Opening Excel from AS400

[David FOXWELL <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> Michael_Schutte@xxxxxxxxxxxx
 
> 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.

Michael,

I think you may have attached some code to your post, but it didn't get through. I Would love to see some code.

 
> Mike Cunningham wrote:
> > Someone in this string said something about using HTTP download 
> > instead of IFS. 

Someone? (!)