I have an excel file in a restricted directory on our web and use an
ASP password verification page to grant access to it (designed by a
third party long gone, of course!). I try to open it using Internet
Explorer 7 and get the following error message -

***********

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and
then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing
resource 'http://crm1.hdma.net/eweb/SecureFileSameWindow.a...

*************

The piece of code that handles the file types and such is as follows:

else if (FileName.EndsWith("xls"))
{
Response.ContentType = "application/excel";
}

The excel file opens fine in Firefox. The excel file was created in
Excel 11, but I have tried saving it down to 2000 and 95 with no luck
- they just open up as text files with no breaks or columns.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

If you don't get an answer in this newsgroup, you may want to ask in one of
those MSIE/scripting newsgroups.



" wrote:

I have an excel file in a restricted directory on our web and use an
ASP password verification page to grant access to it (designed by a
third party long gone, of course!). I try to open it using Internet
Explorer 7 and get the following error message -

***********

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and
then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing
resource 'http://crm1.hdma.net/eweb/SecureFileSameWindow.a...

*************

The piece of code that handles the file types and such is as follows:

else if (FileName.EndsWith("xls"))
{
Response.ContentType = "application/excel";
}

The excel file opens fine in Firefox. The excel file was created in
Excel 11, but I have tried saving it down to 2000 and 95 with no luck
- they just open up as text files with no breaks or columns.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Dave Peterson