BUG: Word 2000 and Excel 2000 Do Not Retain Cookie Information When You Move to a Hyperlink in the Same Session (810360)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Office 2000 Developer
- Microsoft Excel 2000
- Microsoft Word 2000
SYMPTOMSWhen you run Microsoft Internet Explorer to open a Word 2000
document or an Excel 2000 workbook that contains a hyperlink to another
document or workbook, you may experience a problem. If you click the hyperlink
inside the open document, the session information and the cookie information
that is used to return the first document may not be used to move to the
hyperlink target. Therefore, you cannot view the new document if the server
requires session or cookie information. On some systems, you may not experience
the problem when you click the hyperlink the first time. However, if you click
Back to return to the previous document and then click the
hyperlink again, the session information or the cookie information is not used
for the second navigation, and the problem occurs.CAUSEBoth Word and Excel support Web page editing. The problem
that is described in the "Symptoms" section occurs when Word and Excel try to
move to the hyperlink by using Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Internet
Publishing (MSDAIPP). Word and Excel use MSDAIPP to gain full read and write
access to the file. This navigation occurs in a new session that is distinct
from the original session that was used by Internet Explorer to open the
original file. Because of the new session, cookies that are saved by the
previous Internet Explorer session are not available in the second request.
This problem occurs even if the file is opened read-only in Internet
Explorer. To address this issue, a hot fix was released to allow the
hyperlink navigation to open read-only on the first request and then read/write
on the second request. This permits the cookie information to be preserved for
navigation but still permits Web page editing in Office 2000.
For additional information
about the code change, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
185978
FIX: Double GET requests and cookies are lost with Word 2000 or Excel 2000
If the client requests the same hyperlink two times
by clicking Back and then by clicking the hyperlink again, the
internal semantics of the request appear as an edit request. Therefore, MSDAIPP
is used. The result is the loss of cookies for the second attempt and a
re-occurrence of the problem. RESOLUTIONThe problem cannot be fully resolved in Office 2000. The
problem is fully resolved in Microsoft Office XP. STATUS Microsoft
has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed
at the beginning of this article.
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 7/20/2004 |
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| Keywords: | kbpending kbBug KB810360 kbAudDeveloper |
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