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Karl Wright commented on CONNECTORS-1291:
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Hi Phil,
The URL that is sent to the output connector is meant to be functional, so that
if you put it into a browser it would take you to the resource in question.
Microsoft has, in its infinite wisdom, essentially redefined what a legal URL
is. For each part of a SharePoint URL, we use whatever Microsoft gives us. If
we don't do it in *precisely* the way we currently do it, it is not possible to
successfully fetch the resource. This we determined long ago through much
trial and error.
So I am afraid you are stuck with non-standard URLs when the upstream
repository connector accesses Microsoft repositories. The only way we would
change this is if you could show that dropping the URL in question into IE did
*not* take you to the resource after all.
The same is also true, by the way, when you use the CIFS connector to crawl
Windows file systems.
> Sharepoint generating invalid URLs
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> Key: CONNECTORS-1291
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-1291
> Project: ManifoldCF
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: SharePoint connector
> Affects Versions: ManifoldCF 2.3
> Reporter: Phil
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> The Sharepoint connector currently generates invalid URL's which is then sent
> on to the output connector.
> For example the following is an example of a URL that's generated:
> https://<server>Access Form Administration/DispForm.aspx
> I'd suggest it should be sent to the output connector as:
> https://<server>Access%20Form%20Administration/DispForm.aspx
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