{"id":701,"date":"2004-10-06T17:19:29","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T17:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.robertprice.co.uk\/robblog\/2004\/10\/serving_ms_excel_documents_from_a_perl_cgi_script-shtml\/"},"modified":"2004-10-06T17:19:29","modified_gmt":"2004-10-06T17:19:29","slug":"serving_ms_excel_documents_from_a_perl_cgi_script-shtml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertprice.co.uk\/robblog\/serving_ms_excel_documents_from_a_perl_cgi_script-shtml\/","title":{"rendered":"Serving MS Excel Documents From A Perl CGI Script"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nHow can you serve a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet from a Perl<\/a> CGI<\/acronym> script?\n<\/p>\n

\nIt’s actually quite easy, and just a case of sending the right headers.\n<\/p>\n

\nAssuming we have our raw binary Excel sheet in a variable called $excel<\/var>, we can use this simple block of code to allow it to be downloaded from a web script with the filename of text.xls<\/var>.\n<\/p>\n

print \"content-type: application\/vnd.ms-exceln\";
\nprint \"content-disposition: attachment; filename=text.xlsnn\";
\nprint $excel;
\n<\/code><\/div>\n

\nThis will prompt the user with a file download box asking where to store text.xls.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe key here is the content-disposition<\/a> tag. We could change the content-disposition to inline to try to force the browser to open the Excel document in browser itself, but that’s not really very friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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