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Syntax for Creating vmware-view URIs
Syntax includes the vmware-view URI scheme, a path part to specify the desktop or application, and,
optionally, a query to specify desktop or application actions or conguration options.
URI Specification
When you create a URI, you are essentially calling vmware-view with the full View URI string as an
argument.
Use the following syntax to create URIs to start Horizon Client:
vmware-view://[authority-part][/path-part][?query-part]
The only required element is the URI scheme, vmware-view. For some versions of some client operating
systems, the scheme name is case-sensitive. Therefore, use vmware-view.
I In all parts, non-ASCII characters must rst be encoded according to UTF-8 [STD63], and then
each octet of the corresponding UTF-8 sequence must be percent-encoded to be represented as URI
characters.
For information about encoding for ASCII characters, see the URL encoding reference at
hp://www.utf8-chartable.de/.
authority-part
Species the server address and, optionally, a user name, a non-default port
number, or both. Underscores (_) are not supported in server names. Server
names must conform to DNS syntax.
To specify a user name, use the following syntax:
user1@server-address
You cannot specify a UPN address, which includes the domain. To specify
the domain, you can use the domainName query part in the URI.
To specify a port number, use the following syntax:
server-address:port-number
path-part
Species the desktop or application. Use the desktop display name or
application display name. This name is the one specied in Horizon
Administrator when the desktop or application pool was created. If the
display name has a space in it, use the %20 encoding mechanism to represent
the space.
query-part
Species the conguration options to use or the desktop or application
actions to perform. Queries are not case-sensitive. To use multiple queries,
use an ampersand (&) between the queries. If queries conict with each
other, the last query in the list is used. Use the following syntax:
query1=value1[&query2=value2...]
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