[Summary-Talk] Problem with using Summary from Excel.

[Bill_Royds@xxxxxxxxx]

I have written some Excel and Visual Basic systems to combine web pages 
and Summary Statistics to create reports showing the actual web page with 
the link stats overlaid on top of them. I use the Excel (tabbed output) 
version of data to be able to parse it for source and destination links.
  This works very nicely, except for one thing. No matter what sub 
directory I search, it always asks for authorization before reading the 
data, even for sub folders that have no password on them. I do have a 
password for configuration changes.

After sniffing on the transactions when my program runs, I found out that 
the Microsoft embedded Web Browser I use tries to see of there are Front 
Page Extensions activated on the server. It does this by looking for the 
page
http://Summary-Server:9000/_vti_inf.html first before it reads the page 
with the actual data.
This is what is causing the 401 return code asking for authorization. 
Is there a way for summary to receive this request and ignore it rather 
than return the  401 code?



Bill Royds
Knowledge, Information and Technology Services
Department of Canadian Heritage
Tel: (819) 994-0507
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