Support Request: Start Page URL

Reproduction

This bug exists in the <startpage> section of the configuration file.

Our default startpage has a URL of http://www.uniguest.com/cs2.php. The design of this page includes syntax so we can dynamically change certain visual elements, or redirect certain buttons to different hyperlinks.

If we enter only this URL, Sitekiosk behaves normally

<startpage>www.uniguest.com/cs2.php</startpage>

But, if we include PHP syntax to change certain elements of the page, Sitekiosk does not behave normally. Example

<startpage>www.uniguest.com/cs2.php?start=http://www.google.com&ad=0</startpage>;

The behavior that Sitekiosk exhibits is once the configuration file is saved in the Configuration Wizard, only part of the URL is saved. The Sitekiosk Configuration Wizard appears to be concatenating an entire portion of the URL. For example, once Sitekiosk is either "Run Once" or "AutoStart" -- only this portion of the URL is read from the configuration file

www.uniguest.com/cs2.php?start=http://

Since this is technically a malformed URL, Sitekiosk returns the fault of "Page cannot be displayed"

I have double checked the URL in the configuration file with notepad, and the entire URL of www.uniguest.com/cs2.php?start=http://www.google.com&ad=0 is saved in the <startpage> section, however once Sitekiosk is started, it only reads a portion of the full URL

Please advise. Happens 100% of the time and I can provide a configuration file if needed. Thanks

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Answer: (1)

Re: Start Page URL 1/20/2012 4:02 PM
This is because you have edited the xml directly and the URL was not encoded properly to be read as xml. (http://www.uniguest.com/cs2.php?start=http://www.google.com&ad=0) I recommened using the SiteKiosk configuration tool to edit your SiteKiosk startpage so that the URL will be encoded correctly with valid xml characters.
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