Open a link using Excel

B

Bepy

Hi,

I'm using the following to open a file:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0;URL=xxx">

The problem is that the xxx file is an Excel file but with no extension.
How can I tell to web server that its meta data is
application/vnd.ms-excel ?


I know I've to use content-type, but I don't know how to integrate it in
the previous tag.

TIA !
 
J

Jonathan N. Little

Bepy said:
Hi,

I'm using the following to open a file:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0;URL=xxx">

The problem is that the xxx file is an Excel file but with no extension.
How can I tell to web server that its meta data is
application/vnd.ms-excel ?


I know I've to use content-type, but I don't know how to integrate it in
the previous tag.
Click to expand...

Easy! Don't do it that way. Serve with a link!

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Better Way</title>
</head>
<body>

<p>
The proper way to do it, get the Excel
<a href="ExcelSpreadsheet" type="application/vnd.ms-excel">Spreadsheet</a>
with a link!
</p>
</body>
</html>
 
T

Toby Inkster

Bepy said:
How can I tell to web server that its meta data is
application/vnd.ms-excel ?
Click to expand...

Different web servers provide different mechanisms. Apache (the most
commonly used web server) has a "DefaultType" directive, which may be
included in your main server configuration files or in a '.htaccess'
file.
 

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