topic Have to authenticate up to 7 times from Word when using save as to WebDav in Alfresco Archive

Have to authenticate up to 7 times from Word when using save as to WebDav

ebogaard — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:10:01 GMT

While testing 4.2.e, I get a really annoying experience in MS Word 2010 x32 on Windows 7 x64.When I create a new document in MS Office and try to save this via WebDav to Alfresco, I have to authenticate up to 7 times until it's actually saved and the dialog will close.When I open a Word document tha

Re: Have to authenticate up to 7 times from Word when using save as to WebDav

eswbitto — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 21:11:05 GMT

How are you authenticating? Are you using tomcat SSL or are you using (like many) apache as the front end SSL?

Re: Have to authenticate up to 7 times from Word when using save as to WebDav

ebogaard — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 22:04:54 GMT

I'm using Apache httpd as a SSL reverse proxy, using AJP to connect to Alfresco.

Re: Have to authenticate up to 7 times from Word when using save as to WebDav

ebogaard — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:00:34 GMT

After some more testing, it seems to be in the combination: httpd - ajp - tomcat
When I directly enable ssl with a valid certificate on tomcat (or use http), it saves without additional authentication dialogs.

Don't know if you can call this a bug with Alfresco, as this has always worked fine, or if it isn't.

Re: Have to authenticate up to 7 times from Word when using save as to WebDav

eswbitto — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:04:00 GMT

I"m using ajp as well.(ver. 6.1.14)

In the vti-context.xml file is this where you are putting your connector? Should look something similar to this.


   <bean id="vtiServerConnector" class="org.mortbay.jetty.ajp.Ajp13SocketConnector">
        <property name="port">
             <value>${vti.server.port}</value>
        </property>
        <property name="headerBufferSize">
             <value>8192</value>
        </property>
    </bean>

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I only have to hit the password twice after that it goes through.

edit:

One issue we had and I'm not sure if this is related to you or not is that to get a proper SSL connection I had to disable the non-encrypted download of that pic file on the log-in screen that Alfresco likes to download from their main site. I wasn't getting a true SSL connection because of it. If you think that could be it let me know and I can send you the link from where I got how to remove it.

Re: Have to authenticate up to 7 times from Word when using save as to WebDav

ebogaard — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:47:42 GMT

Hi ESWBitto, didn't see your reaction before.
We're not using vti-server as the webdav connector, but the built in webdav ('/alfresco/webdav') option.
I know of the multi-authentication problems with vti-server and SSL, but those are different from these (and are fixable by using SSL directly on Jetty, not via AJP).