Re: Type 'notes' in browser address bar

[Timothy Briley <tlbriley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald,

From what I gather in your reply, your network is running its own 
DNS so me trying it outside of your network wouldn't give the same result.

I'm curious though. Why does she want to use DWA if she's at her PC 
and her PC has Lotus Notes?

Timothy Briley
tlbriley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Florida Board of Bar Examiners
http://www.floridabarexam.org

At 01:35 PM 9/16/2008, you wrote:
> Rob - it looks like you've steered me in the right direction again :)
> Thanks for you input!
>
> We are not running the internal notes browser. See my first sentence in
> response (below) to Timothy. Also I'm pretty sure the user wouldn't have
> an entry in the hosts table - if so that would be quite odd. I don't have
> such an entry in my host table on my pc and if it were required for
> anything notes related I'd know about it (because I'd be the one who'd
> have to document that requirement).
>
> It lookls like there's a DNS entry that does resolve 'notes' to the ip
> address of the domino server. The home url in the http mapping of the
> server document  is '/homepage.nsf?Open'...
>
> So I entered the ip address of the domino server (http://10.1.96.9/) and
> it did display the same thing as the word "notes" does. So that confirms
> the DNS entry.
>
> So my next test was to enter "http://10.1.96.9/homepage.nsf/?Open"; into
> the browser and that also displayed the same page.
>
> So now I'm going to change the html mapping home url value to
> dwaredir.nsf, bounce HTTP and see what happens.....
>
>
>
> Timothy:
>
> The user opened either IE Explorer or Firefox (outside of Notes) - we do
> not use the 'embedded' browser within notes function. That is set by
> desktop policy. This was done at here at the office.
>
> The user then simply typed the word 'notes' in the address bar of the
> browser and pressed enter. It translated to "http://notes/";. Enter that in
> your address bar and see what you get.
>
> I got the same HTML display that she did when I did the same thing in both
> IE and FF.
>
> We are running Notes 8.0.1 on V5R4.
>
> Regards, Jerry
>
> Gerald Kern - MIS Project Leader
> Lotus Notes/Domino Administrator
> IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
> The Toledo Clinic, Inc.
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>
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