URL: Usage of "!" and "?"

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Hi there,we’re going to upgrade to 6.5.1 and so I’m testing, if all web apps are doing what they should.

I copied a forum and our FAQs to the 6.5.1. server. When the user is submitting a new entry (via JS: doc.submit()), Domino creates the URL on its own: “http://domino-01.qv.de/kqvweb/itforum.nsf/MainTopic!CreateDocument&IT-Forum” - but what the user gets is this error: “HTTP Web Server: Couldn’t find design note - MainTopic!CreateDocument&IT-Forum” and I think it’s because of the “!” before “createdocument”. Is this possible? I tried to open an view using “!openview” instead of “?openview” and I received the same error.

Can I tell the Domino-server that it should user “?” instead of “!”?

Thanks a lot,

Buzzy

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Subject: URL: Usage of “!” and “?”

You can indeed tell the server that you wish to use ! instead of ? See admin help on the notes preference “DominoXURLProcess”:

Syntax: DominoXURLProcess=value

Description: Use DominoXURLProcess to enable a Domino Web server’s URL command parser to accept ‘!’ as an alternative query component separator.

0 - Disables ‘!’ as an alternative query component separator

1 - Enables ‘!’ as an alternative query component separator

Applies to: Servers

Default: 0. By default, Domino does not recognize ‘!’ as an alternative query component separator.

UI equivalent: None

HTH

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Subject: YES! Usage of “!” and “?”

Hi,yes, this did it! Our admin said that this option isn’t set on our 5.0.12 server and it works anyhow with “!”…

Is this a new parameter?

Thanks a lot,

Buzzy

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Subject: URL: Usage of “!” and “?”

On the server document, Internet Protocols/Domino Web Engine, there’s a setting for “Make this site accessible to web search site crawlers”.

This tells domino to put a “!” in place of the “?” if it’s enabled. Check what this setting is set up as. It sounds like there’s a hard-coded URL in this App which uses a “!”, but the setting is disable. If it’s disabled, domino will always generate “?” urls, and if enabled it will always generate, and accept “!” ones.

I hope that helps.

Kiers