XF 1.4 excel cannot download the information you requested

[rwm1962]

Hi - we have a spreadsheet on our forum in 2 formats - ods & xls. They contain hyperlinks to posts or images on the forum.

The ODS file works great but the excel gives

excel cannot download the information you requested

I've done some digging & can find reference to the issue in IE here but think it may apply to other browsers.

In particular :

Edit the web page from where you are pulling your data and remove the no-cache header. You would be looking for a meta tag like the following:

<HTTP-EQUIV=”PRAGMA” CONTENT=”NO-CACHE”>

I'm way out of my depth with this. Can anyone please point me in the right direction to confirm & find this & advice if removing it would cause other issues?

Thanks in advance.

 

[rwm1962]

I forgot to mention - putting links into the excel file to other sites eg google worked fine.

 

[rwm1962]

Thinking it may be something server side as tried adding links to other XF sites & they work fine. However I can link to my other sites on the server. Any ideas?

 

[rwm1962]

OK - it's seems to be something in XF excel doesn't like. I can link to any post in my forum that doesn't require a login - ie is guest viewable. Any post that requires a log in to access throws back:

 

[rwm1962]

Coincidently I found 'header("Pragma: no-cache");' in a php file of my cubecart install looking at something else today. Is there anything like this anywhere in the XF files?