Reader Extended form rights issues in Reader X

Hi all
I have a form which is reader extended, which is submit to a SOAP message service(just the form XML) after the form has been filled out. This all takes place over an internal network. When we clicked on the submit button in Reader 9, it would ask if you wanted to allow the connection to the webservice, and would send it through once we click "Allow".
In Reader X however, the gold bar at the top of the form pops up when we click submit, and after choosing to trust the form, it reloads the whole form, and all of the changes made are lost.
Is there any way to programatically tell Reader X to allow the form to make webservice calls(even if theres a security popup) when the form is first opened?
Regards
Ross Malan

Yes, it can, especially if you are using Reader 8 or 9. There were some issues with earlier reader versions that required the positive confirmation of the Reader Extensions credential with the certificate revocation list (CRL), which required that it had to go out to the web to fetch the CRL.
Depending on how deep you want your testing methodology to go, I'd take a virgin windows machine that does not even have reader installed, download or otherwise transfer the RE installer and your form and take it offline. Then install Reader and open your form. It should open with the additional rights with no problem.
But the bottom line is that it is designed to work for your use case.

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