Re: User gets challenged for authentication when opening a document


"David Wang [Msft]" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I believe that second challenge comes from the Office application (Excel in
this case) because it uses a different HTTP client internally (not your web
browser) with a new HTTP/HTTPS connection and hence subject to that
challenge for username/password from your site. If you can get the Office
app to not request for anything from your site to view the report, you
should not see the challenge.

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//David

Not entirely accurate. It does open a HTTP session. But it does in an
attempt to do it in read/WRITE mode.

Office by default, assumes that documents on a web site are in a
"Sharepoint" or "Office Extended" site where the user is an active
particpant in the process and is supposed to be making changes in the
document.

Whether or not it is a dynamic document or not is irrelevant, the prompt is
generated by Office trying to get _WRITE_ mode.

The only fix for this I know of is to upgrade the office install to the
latest service pack. As a work around, instruct the users to right click
and download the document. Or better yet, present it in a read-only way via
HTML or PDF or something.

So the answer is "Get the SPs for Office and it will go away".


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