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RE: I am not sure why you need such a complicated redirect, but... ~Ted Cisrekonygon 21.May.03 01:50 PM a Web browser Domino Server 6.0.1All Platforms
Thank you for your response. It does shed some light on what may be occurring under the covers. However, the scenario isn't out of the ordinary. The user bookmarks a frameset whose contents require authentication. When trying to access that frameset the user is sent to the login page and the frameset URL becomes the redirectto parameter. It's a legit scenario from my point of view. The formula you list is ONE way of parsing query parameters, but it isn't sufficient for parsing parameters that themselves contain arbitrary URLs. As another option, the ?login command could expect the redirectto parameter to the be the last parameter so that it can simply grab the text to the right thus avoiding truncation. Or maybe the redirectto URL should be terminated by some termination character rather rather than simply looking for the next & character. Or maybe someone else has another way of doing this? Sites like Yahoo and Google tend to make heavy use of URLs as "parameters" so there must be ways of reliably parsing them. Suffice it to say, the documentation doesn't state that the redirectto URL may be truncated nor does that seem like the proper behavior.
Thanks again for helping shed some light on the topic.
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