Excel must be performing a check to see if the link exists before opening it in the browser
Excel must be performing a check to see if the link exists before opening it in the browser
A few workarounds you may want to try…
1. Try opening your link by calling a macro that opens up iexplore/firefox http://URL instead of letting excel manage the hyperlink
2. Using a redirection service that would intercept and forward to the proper URL when in a real browser
Makes sense. I think excel performs this check to validate broken 404 links
Obviously with CNN.com, rendering the page body in a ‘websocket’ is not a problem, but with c2 it would trigger the target request
Btw if you are using HTML and have multiple links you can even articulate them automatically via JavaScript… Let me know if you need additional insights on that
