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Weblink 8.2 DocView URL redirects improperly on mobile devices

asked on October 3, 2016

I noticed recently that certain URLs for Weblink 8.2 do not redirect properly when viewed on a mobile device. For instance, the following URL is a link to a Bill posted on their public website, which points to a document in Weblink (a PDF in this case):

http://www5.harfordcountymd.gov/weblink8/DocView.aspx?dbid=0&id=6722235&openfile=true

When you navigate to that URL from a desktop browser, it works properly and redirects to:

http://www5.harfordcountymd.gov/weblink8/ElectronicFile.aspx?docid=6722235&dbid=0

However, when you go to the first link in a mobile browser (tried both Chrome for Android and Safari for iPhone), it inserts some URL encoding and fails to redirect properly. The URL it appears to be loading on mobile browsers is:

http://www5.harfordcountymd.gov/%2fweblink8%2fElectronicFile.aspx%3fdocid%3d6722235%26dbid%3d0

It looks like it takes the relative redirect path and URL encodes it. Is this something related to the way Weblink handles the redirect? Is there anything I can adjust in the configuration to make this work properly?

 

 

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replied on October 7, 2016

After doing a little research on my own, it appears that this may be a bug in how the Response.Redirect function works in MS .NET 2.0. Looks like it is corrected in .NET 4.0 (and so upgrading to Weblink 9.0 appears to have fixed the problem).

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