Launch Published IE and pass URL?

[jdemmi]

Here's one for you guys....

I have a web application that sends out notifcations tp users for tasks they need to complete. The emails contain direct links to the task they need to complete, so that when clicked Internet Explorer will open to the application login page and once the user logs in he\she will be taken to the task.

My problem is this....

Since we have users all over the country, some on very slow network "links", we have chosen to implement the application via Citrix (published IE). And therefore what I need to be able to do, is "combine" a link\url that will launch the published IE and then pass the URL from the application's email received by the user.

Is this possible? Impossible?

If you need more details please let me know.

 

[jdemmi]

I should mention that the url is variable. It will not be the same every time....(otherwise I could have appended a
'%' at the end of the published application to allow for options to be placed in the "initial startup" section of the published app.

 

[oisnds]

I haven't used it, but it sounds like content redirection will work. Let us know.

 

[jdemmi]

Can you send me a link to some documentation on that subject?

 

[oisnds]

Try this.

http://support.citrix.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=56258&fromSearchPage=true&#56258

 

[jdemmi]

That will not work for me.....I don't want all HTTP "documents" (URLs) to be re-directed to the Citrix app.....only some.

Thanks though

 

[oisnds]

Oh well, it was a thought.

 

[Ogi]

Hi,

So how are you going to differentiate between the ones you want Citrix to handle and ones using the PC's own browser?

Cheers,
Carl.

 

[jdemmi]

Well, we did think of one way. It's pretty crude, but it should work. I'll post it here even though I don't think we are going to go this route.

First change the "htm" association in the registry to point to htm.cmd instead of iexplore.exe , then create the following batch file

echo htm.cmd file
echo !%1! is the destine web site
pause
if !%1! == !

http://www.google.com/!

goto tek-tips
goto others

:ibm
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

http://www.tek-tips.com

goto end

thers
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" %1

:end


so whenever you select start, run and paste in

http://www.google.com

the batch file launches and redirects IE to open

http://www.tek-tips.com,

all others it processes as normal.

We could then alter the logic to launch the ica file and pass the url in the command line to the published app.

But like I said, this is kind of crude....we'd have to touch every desktop, the user would have to be logged into the farm whether they needed to be or not (content redirection) and there are chances this could become flaky and work only sporadically.