I have a perl program running on Windows Server 2003/IIS6.0 that should just open an excel report file in the client's browser and let them save it. The code worked on a server running 2000/IIS5.0, but not on this new server. The excel file is created and then saved on the server, not the client. I am using the following sample code to test opening excel on the client: 
use strict; 
use CGI ':standard';
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/; 
use DBD::ODBC;
use strict;
use List::Util qw[min max];
#use warnings;

use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;

my $filename = "mydata.xls"; # generated on-the-fly
print "Content-disposition: attachment;filename=$filename\n";
print "Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel\n\n";

my $workbook  = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new("-");
my $worksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet();
$worksheet->write(0, 0, "Hello");
$worksheet->write(0, 1, "world");

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The code runs, but it looks like the output is printed to the web page, not excel. It has been awhile since I setup a site to use perl/cgi script. Have I missed a security setting somewhere in IIS, do you have any suggestions? Thanks. Greg

In reply to Creating Excel File with Perl by gb123z

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