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How to force the browser to open the link (to a doc or excel file) with the external application

Jul 1st, 2008 04:31
Khurram Ijaz, Sridhar Bandari, http://www.renai-soft.com

You need to send a Content-type header from your script. Or if it a
static file you need to configure mime-types in the server. e.g.
in php you can use the following for excel files
header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel");