title: How to prevent another login dialog with downloading Word,Excel document over Apache server with Basic Auth?
body: <p>I have a front-end apache server running in a windows server.
  The system is setup with NTLM or BASIC Auth (same problem with both).
  A download from a MS Word or Excel documents works fine in all browsers.</p>
  
  <p>If I use the Internet-Explorer and download a office document the download the document request another url.
  Watchging the apache access logs I saw that there are requests with OPTIONS and PROPFIND inside.</p>
  
  <p>So I modified the config using this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  &lt;Location /latest&gt;
      &lt;Limit OPTIONS PROPFIND&gt;
        deny from all
      &lt;/Limit&gt;
    &lt;/Location&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This worked so far, but with Office 2010 I encountered the problem again.</p>
  
  <p>Searching the web I found this article: <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2019105" rel="nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2019105</a>
  Therefor I don't have to send 403 (deny from all sends 403 I guess?), so I have to send 405.</p>
  
  <p>So may I just do this? Is this correct?</p>
  
  <pre><code>  &lt;Location /latest&gt;
      &lt;Limit OPTIONS PROPFIND&gt;
        redirect 405
      &lt;/Limit&gt;
    &lt;/Location&gt;
  </code></pre>