Subject: Domino SSO Issue
Hello
The types of rules available in domino are :
Directory – To allow a server file-system directory to be accessed by a URL path.
Redirection – Resource identified by the URL has been moved to a different location or Web site.
Substitution – To replace a string in the URL with another string.
HTTP response header – To add an Expire header or custom headers to HTTP responses that match specified URL patterns and response codes.
Override session authentication – To set up basic authentication for a specific Web site when session-based authentication is enabled for the server.
Substitution rules can be used to create a more user-friendly URL. For example, if a user does not want to enter the full path to a mail file, you can create a substitution rule that allows the user to enter a shorter URL, for example, entering http:///john instead of http:///mail/john.nsf. When creating the rule, you specify the incoming URL pattern as “/john” and the replacement pattern as “/mail/john.nsf.”
Substitution rules differ from redirection rules. A substitution rule requires the use of the wildcard character in the incoming and replacement pattern. If you do not use a wildcard then the HTTP task appends a forward slash and asterisk ( /* ) to the end of the patterns in the redirection table. You will not see the wildcards appear in the Web Site Rule document unless you enter them. Also redirection rules search the redirection table recursively whereas the substitution rules do not.
A substitution rule replaces one or more parts of the incoming URL with new strings. Substitution rules should be used when you want to reorganize your Web site, and you don’t want to have to rewrite all the links in the site, or when you want to provide user-friendly aliases for complex URLs.
For example, a substitution rule would be useful if you moved a number of files on your Web site from one directory to another. Instead of fixing all the links that refer to the old directory, your substitution rule would map the old directory to the new directory.
The incoming and replacement patterns in substitution rules must each specify at least one wildcard. If you do not explicitly include a wildcard somewhere in a pattern, the HTTP task automatically appends “/*” to the pattern when it stores the rule in its internal table.