Well, it seems to be solved. Sort of. I mean, it works grand, and the patch to OLEwriter.pm and sample code(below) that John sent me did the trick.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

######################################################################
+#
#
# Example of how write to alternative filehandles.
#
# March 2001, John McNamara, jmcnamara@cpan.org
#

use strict;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
use IO::Scalar;

#
# Example 1. Write an Excel file to a string.
#

# Refer to the IO::Scalar documentation
my $xls_str; 
tie *XLS, 'IO::Scalar', \$xls_str;

my $workbook1  = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new(\*XLS);
my $worksheet1 = $workbook1->addworksheet();
$worksheet1->write(0, 0,  "Hi Excel!");
$workbook1->close(); # This is required

# The Excel file is now in $xls_str.
# If you write it to a new file remember to binmode() the filehandle.



#
# Example 2. Write an Excel file to an existing filehandle.
#

open TEST, "> mytest1.xls";

my $workbook2  = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new(\*TEST);
my $worksheet2 = $workbook2->addworksheet();
$worksheet2->write(0, 0,  "Hi Excel!");
$workbook2->close();



#
# Example 3. Write an Excel file to an OO style filehandle.
#

my $fh = FileHandle->new("> mytest2.xls");

my $workbook3  = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new($fh);
my $worksheet3 = $workbook3->addworksheet();
$worksheet3->write(0, 0,  "Hi Excel!");
$workbook3->close();

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Its working beautifully, and seems to have no problem under mod_perl. I'm going to try to use the method below, per John's asking, and see if that works tomorrow when I get to my machine.
    # Untested
    tie *XLS => 'Apache';
    my $workbook = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new(\*XLS);

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But we'll see what happens. Hopefully the next version will have no problems getting released. John's got my support.

_14k4 - webmaster@860.org (www.poorheart.com)

In reply to Update: Provblem 'solved' by one4k4
in thread Using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel with mod_perl and Content-Disposition? by one4k4

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