I still get exactly the same result. On my local machine the excel data appears in text format. It worked from your URL though. I have checked the MIME headers supported by my browser and vnd-ms.excel is listed: 
GET /HTest HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, applicati
+on/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, *
+/*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-gb
Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain

[download]
Do I need to install libapreq to get this to work? I haven't yet managed to get it to compile (it tells me I don't have mod_perl installed!)

In reply to Re: Creating downloadable files on the fly by Anonymous Monk
in thread Creating downloadable files on the fly by surfmonkey

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