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Re: Open MS Office Document results in numereous password requests on IE 8.0

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:52:43 -0400

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:45, Walter Klust <walter.klust_at_elego.de> wrote:
> On 23.03.2012 13:41, Markus.Liebelt_at_t-systems.com wrote:
>>
>> We have the following problem in using Subversion (currently version
>> 1.6.15):
>>
>>  * I open the Windows Internet Explorer 8.0
>>  * I enter there the URL to our Subversion repository:
>> https://our.company.com/svn/REPO/trunk/docs
>>    <https://our.company.com/svn/REPO/trunk/docs>
>>  * I have to login with my credentials (user ID and password).
>>  * I am able to navigate up and down the hierarchy of directories. The
>> credentials are stored in the session, and are
>>    not asked again.
>>  * Every time I try to open an Office document (PPT, XLS, DOC), I see the
>> following happening:
>>
>>  * The windows download / open dialog is opened
>>  * When I press open, there comes a popup that asks for my credentials
>> again. It is not the one of the browser, but of
>>
>>    the application that the document belongs to. The icon of that popup is
>> also the one of the application.
>>  * I see in the background a window that shows the whole URL in a dialog.
>> The dialog is named “Open” (German: Öffnen),
>>
>>    and has only the button “Cancel”.
>>  * I then enter my credentials or approve the cached ones and press then
>> “OK”.
>>  * This popup comes then 3 times, with the same contents.
>>  * After the last one, the Office document is opened.
>>
>>  * I have asked our admins and they told me that they think that the IE8
>> tries to establish a WebDAV connection, which
>>
>>    fails 3 times. Then the office document is downloaded as normally.
>>  * This does not happen with any other browser: Firefox, Chrome, Opera,
>> Sarari are all ok, even Internet Explorer 6.0 is.
>>
>>
>> This happens only with Windows 7 (not sure about 64 bit only), and
>> Internet Explorer 8. It has nothing to do with the
>> client version of Subversion.
>> I have 2 questions:
>>
>>  1. What is the reason for this behavior?
>>  2. Is there anything we can do (server or client side) to fix that
>> behavior?
>>
>>
>> Thank you a lot
>> Bye
>> Markus Liebelt
>> --
>> mailto:markus.liebelt_at_t-systems.com <mailto:markus.liebelt_at_t-systems.com>
>
>
>
> I had a problem with the IE behaving very strange when trying to download MS
> Office documents (docx, xlsx) from a subversion server; it downloaded them
> as zip files instead. The fix was to add the subversion server to the
> trusted sites in the IE settings: Tools->Internet Options, Tab Security
> Its a wild guess but maybe this helps with your problem too.

Do you have svn:mime-type set appropriately (application/msword,
application/msexcel) on those files? The "new" MS Office file formats
*are* ZIP files (rename them & check it out). If you set svn:mime-type
on those files, IE should handle them properly.
Received on 2012-03-26 17:53:53 CEST

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