open existing excel spreadsheet in browser

[mmarino]

I have an excel spreadsheet that lives on the server, I'm trying to get it to open on my browser window.
This is my code (openxl.cgi):

$excel="\/usr\/common\/reportdir\/excelsample.xls";
print "content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel\n";
print "content-disposition: inline\n\n";
print $excel;

The browser opens excel, but I don't get my data, instead all I see is the name of my data file (the /usr/common/...xls) in the first cell.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for any help

 

[brigmar]

You need to print the contents of the file, and not the file name.

 

[mmarino]

You mean, read the file line by line and print each line?
Hadn't even thought about that...
Thanks, I'll try it.

 

[mmarino]

Ok, I can open a plain excel file now, thanks!
Now my problem is that my excel file has a macro in it. Basically the macro opens a txt file and formats the text to make it look good. So far I can't get the file to open.
I think it can't find the txt file. Is there anything special I need to do?
Thanks