Why are cookies unrecognized when a link is clicked from an external source (i.e. Excel, Word, etc…)

Question

I noticed that when a link is clicked externally from the web browser, such as from Excel or Word, that my session cookie is initially unrecognized, even if the link opens u

Answer 1

NGINX solution below:

if ($http_user_agent ~* Word|Excel|PowerPoint|ms-office) {
    return 200 '';
}

You can put it in the server or location block. Works like charm.