Try the following Content-type and see if it gives better results.

If the program is running on Windows then make sure to binmode the file streams. This may be what is causing the file corruption. 

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

    use strict;

    my $filename ="../somepath/test.xls";

    print "Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel\n";
    print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename\n";
    print "\n";

    open    TMP, $filename or die "Error message here: $!\n";
    binmode TMP;
    binmode STDOUT;

    print <TMP>;

[download]

--
John.

In reply to Re: Force Download to a .xls file by jmcnamara
in thread Force Download to a .xls file by Andre_br

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