Good morning,
I have been using PHP4.1, Apache, and MySQL for a few years now and have never had a problem with my Excel headers. When I want to output html to Excel I place the following on the top of the page:
<?header ("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel"); header ("Content-Disposition: attachment" );
After moving to PHP 4.3, MS SQL Server, Windows 2000 Server I am having problems with this header. I get the message: "Internet Explorer cannot download myfile.php from myintranet.net"
1) is your server still configured to recognize "<?" as php (and only php)? You may want to make that "<?php" to be more sure. The headers likely aren't being sent if it's prompting to download .php - seems like it's not recognizing the extension, perhaps it's disabled for a certain pattern.
You could also try changing it to:
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");to ensure that it's "going off" (set $filename obviously, something distinct like my_excel.xls)
2) Are you using ssl and sessions? You'll find some fun and strange behavior trying to save output from an ssl connection and sessions - because sessions force no-cache, and (IE in particular) has real issues with storing the output of a no-cache'd https - you can't save it locally or open with an external application, because either way it has to store it somewhere other than memory, which would be caching.
Cheers,
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