PermaLinkAnyone have a 6.5 server to test *possible* bug?
posted Monday 23rd, February 2004
 



During my hours at Lotusphere (some folks had days; I had hours. Oh well :-) ...I did stop in to see one vendor with which I'd had a fair amount of contact. While chatting, the head of the company told me of what looked like a Domino 6.5 bug. Well, I don't have a 6.5 server, and don't have access to play with one (at least not one with the http task running). So if anyone can verify this bug or verify that this is at least not an issue on your server, please share the findings. I've searched the web and so far cannot find any mention of this, so it could be that 6.5 is too new for many folks to have hit the bug, or it could be that the bug does not exist! Here's the scoop on the possible bug (note I said possible! Often folks report "bugs" and it is then determined to be more a case of PEBCAK - Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard - although it was a pretty intelligent person reporting this problem to me):

Create or locate a database that is sitting on a web-enabled 6.5 server. From your browser, try to open a document using a URL in the format of http://database.nsf/viewname/keyValue ...where keyValue is the value from the first sorted column of the view. Normally Domino would open that document using the default action of ?OpenDocument, and I know I have coded many, many URLs without specifying the full URL. It just looks better to not have to have that ?OpenDocument hanging on the end of the URL, and gosh, our Domino URLs can get long enough as it is! Well, if this bug is for real, that shortened URL will give you an error page. Try the same URL on the same database from a server running a version of Domino prior to 6.5, and the shorter URL should work just fine. Typically you can specify any note in a database (remember that everything in Notes is a note - a view is a note, a page is a note, a document is a note, etc., etc.) -- typically you can provide enough info in the URL to identify the note, and Domino will take the default action on that note, without you needing to specify that default action.

So if you've got a little time and a 6.5 server, please do a little test and share the results. Thanks!
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1. Posted by Carlos09/09/2007 08:42 PM



Just tried and it worked fine without the ?OpenDocument



2. Posted by Vince Schuurman - website09/09/2007 08:42 PM



PMT on OpenNTF would break if it didn't.



3. Posted by Joe Litton - website09/09/2007 08:42 PM



Ah, thanks for testing, gents. When I'm home later I'll update the main post to make it obvious that this bug does not exist.



4. Posted by Jorge Coelho09/09/2007 08:42 PM



We encountered a similar issue at our company when testing our applications for ND 6.5 compatability. We have started trying to use ! instead of ? in our web application URLs, since many other apps don't integrate well with Domino when ? are used (including search engines). If you recall there was also a feature in Domino 5 that translated all URLs to use the !. I think it was the feature to allow web engines to crawl the site.

In any case, I found that in order to support apps that use the !, you have to add a new setting to your notes.ini when you upgrade your server. Here's a link with more details directly from the Lotus Help.

http://www-12.lotus.com/ldd/doc/domino_notes/Rnext/help6_admin.nsf/0/9fcf6427ba3b8b9e85256c1d003a041f?OpenDocument



5. Posted by Joe Litton - website09/09/2007 08:42 PM



Jorge, THANK YOU very much for the clarification! I believe the vendor with whom I was speaking was running Domino on Linux, if that has anything to do with it, but I'm not certain about that. Nonetheless I will most definitely make a note about using the bang (!) instead of the question mark.

Thanks!



6. Posted by Ben Poole - website09/09/2007 08:42 PM



I can confirm that that is probably the issue; I've seen it before with other ND 6.x server installations... it's an easy gotcha. My site is running on DDN servers. which are all 6.5 I believe, and I tend to avoid the ? / ! Open... commands too.



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