Re: cgi program being downloaded rather than the excel file.

WEB400 is maybe a better list but....

Sounds like Apache might not be configured to recognize the link as a
CGI program, thus it downloads it as if it was any other resource.

I forget the details (again WEB400) but there's a
<something>Executable<something> line(s) that go into the Apache
config file to tell Apache that the link represents a CGI program..

HTH,
Charles

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Michael Schutte <mschutte369@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have an RPGLE cgi program that is being called from the intranet.  It's
suppose to build an XML excel spreadsheet and send it back to the browser.
We have one person on I.E. 8, where it tries to download the program rather
than the XML document.  Another user here on I.E. 8 has no program, the XML
document downloads.  When I try on Chrome, I get the attempt to download
the program rather than the XML document.  I.E. 9 on my machine works as
designed.

The bad thing about this program is that it's generated from a code
generator. Clover from BCD (I'm going to send them an email next).  Clover
basically builds the CGI program on the iseries.  In the source I see were
the mimetype__ is being changed to application/vd.excel

I was wondering if anyone knew if there was a setting in the browser that
is causing this issue.

This doesn't mean anything to me, but maybe it does to you.

Here's the DSPECS.

D mimetype__      S             64A   import

/free
 mimetype__ = 'application/vnd.ms-excel'
/end-free


maybe the mimetype isn't correct.

Thank you,
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