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We have an application that produces HTML documents which the user opens in word from the web server, so they open:
https://ourserver/ourapp/somepath/generateddocument.htm
That document contains image links like:
<img src="https://ourserver/ourapp/resources/image.jpg">
and
<img src="https://ourserver/ourapp/imagegenerator.aspx?some=querystring">
The first display, the second displays the classic broken image icon.
When opening in Internet Explorer, both render.
When tracing with Fiddler, both images are correctly returned.
Changing the second example to:
<img src="http://ourserver/ourapp/imagegenerator.aspx?some=querystring">
It displays.
However, in SOME word installs in the office both display.
What settings where should we be looking to understand why the latest word 2003 hotfixed word install on an up to date patched windows 7 install should be different between my machine and a colleague for the display of these items?
Just in case it matters, Office has another odd feature, in which it uses an IE component to see if a URL exists before (delegating) actually loading it. I'm not sure if that applies to showing images too, but one might want to know about it. (And thanks for reporting back!)
– Arjan – 2011-03-24T10:59:26.890