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In this example, double quotes are escaped by using the characters \".

vmware-view://10.10.10.10/Notepad++%2012?args=a.txt%20b.txt

Launches Notepad++ 12 on server 10.10.10.10 and passes the argument a.text b.txt in the application

launch command. Because the argument is not enclosed in quotes, a space separates the lenames and

the two les are opened separately in Notepad++.

N Applications can dier in the way they use command line arguments. For example, if you pass

the argument a.txt b.txt to Wordpad, Wordpad will open only one le, a.txt.

vmware-view://view.mycompany.com/Notepad?

unauthenticatedAccessEnabled=true&unauthenticatedAccessAccount=anonymous1

Horizon Client starts and connects to the view.mycompany.com server using the anonymous1 user account.

The Notepad application is launched without prompting the user to provide login credentials.

HTML Code Examples

You can use URIs to make hypertext links and buons to include in emails or on Web pages. The following

examples show how to use the URI from the rst URI example to code a hypertext link that says, Test Link,

and a buon that says, .

<html>

<body>

<a href="vmware-view://view.mycompany.com/Primary%20Desktop?action=start-session">Test

Link</a><br>

<form><input type="button" value="TestButton" onClick="window.location.href=

'vmware-view://view.mycompany.com/Primary%20Desktop?action=start-session'"></form> <br>

</body>

</html>

Setting the Certificate Checking Mode in Horizon Client

You can determine whether client connections are rejected if any or some server certicate checks fail by

conguring a seing in Horizon Client.

You can congure the default certicate verication mode and prevent end users from changing it in

Horizon Client. For more information, see “Conguring Certicate Checking for End Users,” on page 42.

Certicate checking occurs for SSL connections between the server and Horizon Client. Certicate

verication includes the following checks:

Has the certicate been revoked?

Is the certicate intended for a purpose other than verifying the identity of the sender and encrypting

server communications? That is, is it the correct type of certicate?

Has the certicate expired, or is it valid only in the future? That is, is the certicate valid according to

the computer clock?

Does the common name on the certicate match the host name of the server that sends it? A mismatch

can occur if a load balancer redirects Horizon Client to a server that has a certicate that does not match

the host name entered in Horizon Client. Another reason a mismatch can occur is if you enter an IP

address rather than a host name in the client.

Chapter 3 Configuring Horizon Client for End Users

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