Dear monks

I'm streaming an xls file, which works great, however the file is saved as 'process.pl'. Not really what I want, so I changed
print "Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel\n\n"
into
print header(-type=>'application/vnd.ms-excel', -attachment=>'overview.xls');
However, now I get an error and in the apache log I get
... malformed header from script. Bad header= : /opt/www/process.pl
Any suggestions what I'm doing wrong here ?

cheers
LuCa

UPDATE: thnx ahmad and Khen1950fx, it was a stupid mistake. The header stuff was copied from cpan, and in my case I have an $cgi object (I didn't show enought code :(

In reply to cgi: malformed header from script. Bad header= by jeanluca

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