Opening Urls from Office Tools don't have Session Cookies avaliable

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jan_St=FCrtz?=]

Hi,
I'm using Internet Explorer 6.0 with Apache 1.3.27 Server
and Windows XP with Office XP.

I tried to open urls of my web based application (cgi)
from ms word or ms powerpoint. The user will be
authenticated by a session-cookie.

Every time I open the url from e.g. word, the session
cookie will not be send to the web based application,
even if other Internet Explorer instances are running
with the required session-cookie. The application thinks
the user is not authenticated, because of the missing
session-cookie, and does a redirect.

The redirected request send by the Internet Explorer
instance the e.g word application started already
contains the session cookie.

Redirections are made with javascript on client /
Internet Explorer side.

Otherwise everythings works fine, when the urls are
opened from any other application like mozilla or Outlook.

Does anyone else have this problem ?
Is there a workaround?

Jan

 

[caroline]

Hi,

I do not have an answer, but I see a similar problem. My
example is specifically with powerpoint. I can see that
the IE 6.0 browser is sending multiple get requests to the
webserver (but can not tell why.) The first get request
has the session cookie, but only partially downloads the
file and then subsequent get requests no longer have the
session cookie and so the request is sent to the login
screen again, never succesfully downlaoding the file.

I am wondering if a particular version of the power point
plugin does byte streaming (and strips the cookie) while
other versions of the powerpoint plugin do not.

Does anyone know how to verify the version of the power
point plugin?