Office opens hyperlinks first in IE, then in default browser

Hello!
If you have some links saved, for example, in Excel, when you try to follow it, Office first sends the GET-request with IE User-Agent and user's cookies from IE , and only then default browser opens it and sends the same request.
You can check it with some app, like Fiddler.
It causes rare but unpleasant effects while working with links in Excel.
Could someone explain the sense of this first request with IE User-Agent?
Tank you, guys!

Hi,
Thanks for your post.
When you click a hyperlink in Microsoft Office Applications (Excel in your case), just like what you have detected, it actually runs Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery first to determine if the URL works.
The Office library will make an HTTP HEAD request to the web server for the opening URL. This request is sent with a Windows/Internet Explorer component (it was identified as User Agent Microsoft Office Existence Discovery).
The purpose of the HEAD request is to check that the content exists at the URL location as a document, and not simply as a tempoary resource streamed down for a read-only session.
More reference:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838028/en-us Please check the
Understanding Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery section)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsofficedeveloper/archive/2008/03/11/office-existence-discovery-protocol.aspx
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Ethan Hua CHN
TechNet Community Support
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