We have noticed the following problem after upgrading to 6.0.3. opening attachments is twice as long using Domino Web Access.Our research seems to indicate that the encoding of attachments through DWA was changed from Binary to BASE64.
Exemple :
In body field of mail on 6.0.2 :
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
In body field of mail on 6.0.3 :
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Further more, on mails in 6.0.3 we have a new $Mimetrack field with the following content :
“Serialize by Notes Server on SRVTEST/CHU-Montpellier(Release 6.0.3|September 26, 2003) at 04/02/2004 10:33:11”
Figures in mails sent to myself.
Questions are :
Has anyone noticed this?
Can the encoding type be reverted back without moving back to 6.0.2?
We are also waiting word from Lotus support but I would warn you to be carefull before upgrading, because users react with anger to this new feature.
The following Notes.INI setting on your Domino server will revert to the former behavior:iNotes_WA_DisableRecodeMIMECharset=1
Make sure there is an carriage return after the last line in your server’s NOTES.INI, and you need to restart the server for the setting to take effect.
We’re further investigating the performance issue you have identified.
Thank you VERY MUCH Vinod! First tests shows it works.For your investigation, files seem to upload normaly but then stop right at the end. Time after that doubles the upload time before file opens.
One further question : Is there anyway to obtain all those iNotes_WA ini variables? We’de be very insterested as all of our users (3,000) are iNotes and we are working on performance.
I’ve been told that all iNotes_WA INI settings are in the Domino Administration help. The easiest way to find these settings in the Admin help is to expand NOTES.INI settings → Domino Web Access.
to find more (all?) listed notes.ini settings in the (admin) manual, you need to search on:
iNotes_WA_*
(don’t forget the asterisk on the end to instruct the engine to match all endings).
I live in hope that Lotus will one day have a website with all the notes.ini settings listed (then have the releases they are current for, then what they do).