A little irony for today
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A customer sent me an email today asking if there is anyway to make the Sametime Connect client support Notes:// urls, sadly after spending some time on it, I came to the conclusion that even with attempted registry hacks it isn't possible (although if you don't use URLS like the Gopher protocol, you could tweak the registry so that gopher:// actually is handled the same way as Notes:// and then send gopher:// instead of notes:// to Sametime users).
So where's the irony? Well the irony is that the Sametime connect client supports the Outlook:// protocol but not the Notes:// protocol. A quick look shows the Sametime Connect client supporting at least the following:
http://
https://
ftp://
outlook://
gopher://
news://
nntp://
mailto://
telnet://
Always trying to think out of the box, here is a quick way you can kind of send Notes:// urls through the Sametime Connect. On your sametime server in the \data\domino\html directory create a text file and call it something like notesredirect.htm give the document the following contents:
<html>
<script>
var NotesURL = location.search.substring(1);
location = NotesURL;
</script>
</html>
Now when you want to send a notes:// url actually send the following:
http:///notesredirect.htm?
Example:
http://STServer.acme.com/notesredirect.htm?Notes://Apps1/85256D520079E484/1CCEertc.etc.
This is great if you want to send Notes urls to people as return strings for bots.
A customer sent me an email today asking if there is anyway to make the Sametime Connect client support Notes:// urls, sadly after spending some time on it, I came to the conclusion that even with attempted registry hacks it isn't possible (although if you don't use URLS like the Gopher protocol, you could tweak the registry so that gopher:// actually is handled the same way as Notes:// and then send gopher:// instead of notes:// to Sametime users).
So where's the irony? Well the irony is that the Sametime connect client supports the Outlook:// protocol but not the Notes:// protocol. A quick look shows the Sametime Connect client supporting at least the following:
http://
https://
ftp://
outlook://
gopher://
news://
nntp://
mailto://
telnet://
Always trying to think out of the box, here is a quick way you can kind of send Notes:// urls through the Sametime Connect. On your sametime server in the \data\domino\html directory create a text file and call it something like notesredirect.htm give the document the following contents:
<html>
<script>
var NotesURL = location.search.substring(1);
location = NotesURL;
</script>
</html>
Now when you want to send a notes:// url actually send the following:
http://
http://STServer.acme.com/notesredirect.htm?Notes://Apps1/85256D520079E484/1CCEertc.etc.
This is great if you want to send Notes urls to people as return strings for bots.
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Posted by Stephan H. Wissel At 07:30:40 PM On 07/13/2005 | - Website - |