Yea, I've seen that article. It refers to single sign on, which isn't really what I'm doing, but I can see that the underlying idea that Word creates a brand new session is why it's doing it. Perhaps they thought it opened the door to potential security violations by allowing it to utilise cookies.
On 20 Jan. 2018 8:36 pm, "Richard Carde" <[email protected]> wrote: > Rings a bell and I've come across this quite some time ago. > > Refer to the following, it probably relates to your situation: > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/899927/you-are- > redirected-to-a-logon-page-or-an-error-page-or-you-are-prompte > > *The Web site in the hyperlink uses a Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication > system that relies on HTTP session cookies for client identification. Even > if you have already provided user credentials, you are prompted to provide > the user credentials again.* > > Regards, > > RC > > On 20 January 2018 at 18:48, Tony Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi people, >> >> I have an issue with an asp.net mvc application. Essentially, if I log >> into the application, and I tick the "remember me" box, it stores a cookie >> with the authentication details and logs me in. >> >> Any time I come back to that site within the timeframe set within the >> context of that saved authentication cookie, I am logged in automatically. >> That actually works ok, no problems there. >> >> But when the link to a page within my site is saved inside a Word >> document, and I hold down the ctrl key and click the link, it opens up the >> browser, attempts to go to the right web page, but it doesn't use the >> cookie, so it requires me to log in again. >> >> Outside of Word, I can still put the link into the browser and it will >> remember the security context and log me in. >> >> Has anyone else experienced this? Is it possible to get it to >> automatically authenticate using the cookie, because this kind of behaviour >> makes me feel like it was by design. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Regards, >> Tony >> >> >> >
