I maintain several blogs powered by SharePoint 2007. There are two ways to reach each of the blogs. The first one is direct access from our corp network. It uses basic authentication, so it works quite fine with WLW. But most of our bloggers work from home, so they want to be able to post via the Internet.
Our blogs are published with ISA Server 2006. It uses Forms-baset authentication (FBA) because we need user-frienly logon dialogs. Some programs like Word 2007 can handle this correctly. We have no issues blogging with Word from the Internet via ISA's FBA. But we like the features of Writer. And it seems to have problems with FBA. If I try to add a blog using public URL, which is published with ISA's FBA, I get the following error message:
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Unexpected Error Occurred
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An unexpected error occurred while attempting to detect weblog settings:
Invalid Server Response - The response to the blogger.getUsersBlogs method received from the weblog server was invalid: Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server
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OK
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Are there any plans to add support for FBA in WLW? Thanks in advance.
