November 20, 2007

Launching links from office documents

If you click a link form a MS office document (excel, word etc) and that link gives you back a HTTP 302 response I found that two requests were made for the destination of the 302.
i.e Fiddler logs
302 http://www.myserver/mypage (gives back 302 to http://www.myserver/myloginpage)
200 http://www.myserver/myloginpage
200 http://www.myserver/myloginpage

Strangely this didn’t happen from sent outlook email but did from drafts!