Hi. We are running XE-2.1.1 over Glassfish and recently one of our end users 
reported that when he clicked on a hyperlink in a MS-Word document that pointed 
to a page in our XE instance, MS-Word indicated in the status bar that "Word is 
preparing to go to this link" and then reports an error "Unable to open 
http://example.com/xwiki/bin/view.... Cannot download the information you 
requested". The expectation is that clicking on the click should simply 
dispatch the URL to the default browser. The URL of course opens without issue 
in all browsers.

We did some research and experiments and found out that the above error only 
shows up for URLs that are not world-readable i.e. those that need 
authentication.

We read through the MS-KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838028/ and 
believe that the Office-2003 app itself is doing/attempting to fetch the 
content of the URL.

Does any one have a clue how to make Office2003 (Word, Excel, PPT, Visio etc.) 
to simply handoff the URL to the browser instead of doing anything fancier?

I am posting this query on this forum because I suspect XE might also be 
involved in this because it must be responding to the "OPTIONS" command and 
participating in the MS Office Discovery Protocol.


Thanks,
Milind


      
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