> Setup: ASP.Net, IIS6, basic setup on Windows 2003 Server:
>
> -I have a directory in my web application that contains MS Word documents
> (.doc).
> -User opens one of the .doc in the browser it opens fine
> -User leaves the page (back button or close window) and there is a Windows
> challenge dialog!
> -User just hits Cancel the dialog goes away and all is well.
>
> I can not see how to get that dialog from appearing???
>
> What I have have tried
> -I have two apps - one with the generic web.config app and an app with
forms
> authentication. Both show same problem.
> -This does not happen with other file types in that dir (.txt, etc.) --
only
> .doc that I have tried.
> -I ran a sniffer and I notice that I get the dialog because when the user
> leaves the page a POST to author.dll is sent by my browser (how that could
> happen is the mystery!):
> POST /myserver/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.dll HTTP/1.1, NTLMSSP_AUTH
> (application/x-www-form-urlencoded)Hypertext Transfer Protocol
> POST /fusioniraq/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.dll HTTP/1.1\r\n
> Request Method: POST
> Request URI: /fusioniraq/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.dll
> Request Version: HTTP/1.1
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> p.s. worst case I will just convert my .doc to .pdf and problem solved --
> but I'd really like to understand why this happens.
>
>