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2010

End user perception of Lotus products: Is it a local issue?

Lotus community frequently discuss IBM's capability to market Lotus products. However, an important point is missing in the discussion. Lotus is a corporate brand and is not being marketed to end users. On the other hand, the competitor has the ability to address both consumers and companies.

In the background, it should be investigated how end users are influential on corporations' investment decisions. In a classical approach, end user is just a small factor, running behind other aspects like the return on investment or total cost of ownership. Is it that simple?

Need suggestion: Authenticate for HTTP from XPiNC?

I am digging into XPage secrets. There is an XPage containing an IFRAME targeting a restricted resource fro the web server. It may be a view/page/form from another database or file resource under domino\html folder. No problem viewing this page from browser because you authenticate into web server and can see the resource.

But what about Notes client? From XPiNC, IFrame element calls for a basic web page and of course, it needs authentication!

Another application area of this problem is with client-sided AJAX routines. When you are authenticated with an XPage on Notes Client, a client side HTTPRequest will not be authenticated for another resource on the same server.

Any suggestions?

UPDATE:

After Tim's suggestions, I have found a solution and implemented. I also found a bug and solved :)

See the next post...

http://lotusnotus.com/lotusnotus_en.nsf/dx/http-authentication-from-xpinc-got-help-found-bug-worked-around.htm