links in word documents & Shib

[Stapleton, Steven J. (James)]

> >Has anyone had an issue where you have a link in a word document, and 
> >it opens in shibboleth, you get the 'back or bookmark' error (below).
> >
> >If you copy and paste the link into the browser, it works fine, you go 
> >to the proper document without an error.
> >
> >This has happened with the default browser of Firefox, IE in Windows.
> >I've not tested anything else yet. Does anyone know how to fix it if 
> >they've seen it?
>
> The primary fix, if it's sufficient, is to stop using cookies for relay state and switch it to "ss:mem" to match the latest
> defaults.
>
> If there are other problems causing the issue, it probably isn't fixable (or I should say is a Microsoft bug).

Thanks, tried switching to OpenOffice on my tests. That fixed the issue. We'll just have to tell Word users that Word is the problem.

Thanks again,
-Jim Stapleton