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Disable URL Normailization

The process of URL normalization modifies URLs from a Domino representation to a URL format used by a typical web browser. The Domino Web Agent relies on the Domino web server APIs to normalize a Domino URL.

During the normalization process, the Domino Server APIs periodically return a URL with a carriage return (0x0D in hex) and/or a line feed character (0x0A in hex) added to the normalized URL. The addition of these characters appears to be related to specific Notes database (.nsf) files and access patterns within these files.

The following example shows a normalized URL with an added carriage return:

• URL: http://server.ca.com:80/agentrunner.nsf/be68f4545348400461332?OpenView
• URL is mapped to: http://server.ca.com:80/agentrunner.nsf/AgentContext?OpenView
• URL is normalized to: http://xxxxx.ca.com:port/agentrunner.nsf/0x0d/AgentContext?OpenView

If necessary, you can ensure that URLs with Domino resource IDs are not normalized with the following parameter:

• DominoNormalizeUrls

  Specifies if the SiteMinder Web Agent converts Domino URLs to a URL-friendly name before redirecting them to a Forms Credential Collector.

  The MapUrlsForRedirect parameter must also be set to yes for the Domino URLs to be converted.

  If the DominoNormalizeUrls parameter is set to no, URLs will not be normalized, even if the MapUrlsForRedirect parameter is set to yes.

  Important! If you set the DominoNormalizeUrls parameter to no, you cannot protect individual documents within a Notes database; you can only protect the entire database or subdirectories of the Domino Web server.

  Default: Yes

To turn off normalization and ensure that URLs are not altered, set the DominoNormalizeUrls parameter to no.