Links don't work

[Rob Nicholson]

Not sure if this is a Windows 2003, Citrix, Terminal Server, Internet
Explorer 6 or Outlook 2003 issue and it's a strange one. On our
Citrix/Terminal servers, the following style of links don't work:

www.brightsidetrust.blogspot.com

When a user clicks on the link, IE tries to open up:

http://"www.brightsidetrust.blogspot.com"/

Obviously this doesn't work. However, if a FQN version is used, then it
works.

http://www.brightsidetrust.blogspot.com

Also copying and pasting the first link into IE also works.

The original link works outside of Citrix so it's not the email that's
malformed. The question is, what is adding those %22 (which are quote
characters) into the URL when opening up IE? My suspicion is that it's a
file association maybe or a similar mechanism and "%1" has been added (or
something like that) whereas it should just be %1. But that's a wild guess.

Any advice appreciated.

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Ayesha Mascarenhas [MSFT]]

Does the problem you report occur when
1) you are logged on to the physical console to the terminal server (i.e.
not remotely)
2) terminal server role is disabled?

If it does not occur in either of the above scenarios, this issue is
probably unrelated to Terminal Server.
You should post this question to an IE NG as well.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/using/community/ie/default.mspx

 

[Rob Nicholson]

If it does not occur in either of the above scenarios, this issue is

probably unrelated to Terminal Server.

It was a Citrix issue around their redirection of IEXPLORE.EXE to somewhere
weird. We're not sure why it started happening but it's fixed now.

Thanks, Rob.