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Using URIs to Configure HTML Access Web Clients
Using uniform resource identiers (URIs), you can create a Web page or an email with links that end users
click to launch the HTML Access Web client, connect to View Connection Server, and launch a specic
desktop or application with specic conguration options.
You can simplify the process of connecting to a remote desktop or application by creating Web or email links
for end users. You create these links by constructing URIs that provide some or all of the following
information, so that your end users do not need to supply it:
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View Connection Server address
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Port number for View Connection Server
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Active Directory user name
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RADIUS or RSA SecurID user name, if dierent from Active Directory user name
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Domain name
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Desktop or application display name
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Actions including browse, reset, log o, and start session
Syntax for Creating URIs for HTML Access
Syntax includes a path part to specify the server, and, optionally, a query to specify a user, desktop or
application, and actions or conguration options.
URI Specification
Use the following syntax to create URIs for launching HTML Access Web clients:
https://authority-part[/?query-part]
authority-part
Species the server address and, optionally, a non-default port number.
Server names must conform to DNS syntax.
To specify a port number, use the following syntax:
server-address:port-number
query-part
Species the conguration options to use or the 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...]
Observe the following guidelines when creating the query-part:
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If you do not use at least one of the supported queries, the default
VMware Horizon Web portal page is displayed.
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In the query part, some special characters are not supported, and you
must use the URL encoding format for them, as follows: For the pound
symbol (#) use %23, for the percent sign (%) use %25, for the ampersand
(&) use %26, for the at sign (@) use %40, and for the backslash (\) use %5C.
For more information about URL encoding, go to
hp://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp.
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