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

[ebogaard]

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 that already exists via WebDav, change something and do a normal 'save', there is no authentication needed.

Other programs don't any problems saving to WebDav.
Copying of files to WebDav is working fine as well.

Does this have something to do with the fix for the threefold increase in version when using MS Word with Alfresco 4.2c WebDav and older?
In the Site activity Dashlet in Share I can see that the file is added four times:

Administrator
Administrator added document Bla.docx
a minute ago
Administrator
Administrator updated document Bla.docx
a minute ago
Administrator
Administrator deleted document Bla.docx
a minute ago
Administrator
Administrator added document Bla.docx
a minute ago


I'm using the Webdav-implementation Windows 7 x64 and connect over SSL to Alfresco Webdav. I use the following command to connect the drive: "NET USE N: \\example.com@SSL/alfresco/webdav".

[eswbitto]

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

[ebogaard]

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

[ebogaard]

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.

[eswbitto]

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>

‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

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.

[ebogaard]

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).