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

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/24/04 2:22 PM Bill_Royds@pch.gc.ca (Bill_Royds@pch.gc.ca) wrote:

>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. 

Thank you for your through exploration of what is going on. This probably 
explains some problems other users have been having that were 
non-repeatable. I suspect that there is some additional condition, that 
the embedded Web Browser doesn't *always* check that page, but that 
doesn't really matter now.

>Is there a way for summary to receive this request and ignore it rather 
>than return the  401 code?

This is a bug. Summary should be returning a 404 Page Not Found. There 
isn't any workaround that I can think of, but we will fix this in the 
next release.

Jason

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