9.2

This change will not take effect until you quit and restart the QuarkXPress Server Manager
server application.
Sending requests from a browser
Like QuarkXPress Server, QuarkXPress Server Manager lets you send requests from a Web
browser. This capability helps to ensure that you need to make only minimal changes
when you update an application so that it sends requests to a QuarkXPress Server Manager
server instead of a QuarkXPress Server instance.
Assume that a QuarkXPress Server instance expects requests in the following format:
http://[QXPServer]:[port]/[request]?[request_parameters]
If this is the case, a QuarkXPress Server Manager server will expect requests in the following
format:
http://[QXPSManagerServer]:[port]/qxpsm/request/[request]?[request_parameters]
In other words, a QuarkXPress Server Manager server accepts requests in a format that is
similar to the request format used with a QuarkXPress Server instance. That means you
can get the benefits of QuarkXPress Server Manager without having to completely rewrite
your applications.
Additional parameters
In addition to request-specific parameters, QuarkXPress Server Manager accepts the
following request parameters. These parameters can be submitted in the standard
QuarkXPress Server GET format joined by an ampersand (&) with the other parameters in
the body of the request.
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qxpsm_bypassfileinfo: When QuarkXPress Server Manager receives a request, it executes
a fileinfo request on the document to get the document's size and last-modified date
and time. These values are used for load balancing and for determining whether to serve
the document from the cache. If the value of this parameter is set to true, the fileinfo
request is not made, file size is considered to be zero for load-balancing purposes, and the
document in the cache is considered to have changed.
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qxpsm_context: Set this value if you need to use it in a custom load balancer.
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qxpsm_maxtries: This parameter lets you specify a maximum number of retries for a
specific request. If this parameter is absent or set to 0, the global maximum retries value
is used. To disable maximum retries for a request, use the value –1.
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qxpsm_password: The value of this parameter, if supplied, is used as the "Admin Password"
value when the request is forwarded to a QuarkXPress Server instance.
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qxpsm_responseasurl: By default, QuarkXPress Server Manager writes responses as
temporary files in the cache folder and returns a URL to the client. This approach prevents
the performance degradation that can result from sending binary data using SOAP. However,
you might want QuarkXPress Server Manager to return the response directly if you are
creating an application that processes that response (simple or multipart) with its own
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