[destiny]

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 :)
Destiny

[alex]

By doing print $excel, all you are doing is telling the script to print the value for $excel

You need to do a print "Location: /reportdir/excelsample.xls\n\n";