IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5.1 | Release Notes |
Provider installed and wish to upgrade to Sametime 7.5.x, perform the following steps:
1.Back up <Domino bin
2.Uninstall the service provider.
3.Reinstall the service provider
4.Restore
The key is to uninstall the existing service provider and then reinstall it (or install a newer version) after Sametime has been upgraded. Please be aware that, if you install a newer version of the service provider (or upgrade it), configuration file formats may have changed. See "Telephony Services unavailable after upgrading service provider" in these release notes for more information.
Sametime
Workaround available for URL redirection issues when tunneling
When a Sametime server has been set up for tunneling over port 80, the Sametime MUX (STMux) is listening for port 80 traffic. There are several situations where HTTP redirection is needed (STMux located on a separate machine, or when a reverse proxy is enabled).
Traditionally, STMux handles HTTP redirect responses by stripping the Location host and keeping only the path. Using a redirect Location URL without a Location host is supported by most HTTP implementations. It is done here in order to avoid cases where redirections might direct the client so that it does not come through STMux. In some cases, however, the "guessed" complete URL is not the correct one. As a result, the browser on the client appears to be in an infinite loop where the web page never loads.
For Sametime releases prior to 7.5 CF1, the only way for HTTP redirection documents to work correctly on a Sametime server is to not set up the Sametime server for tunneling over port 80.
A fix is available in Sametime 7.5 Cumulative Fix 1 (CF1) and later that offers an alternative approach. Instead of stripping the host[:port] from the URL, the customer can provide rules for translation from a list of host[:port] names to the host[:port] name which should be used instead.
In order to take advantage of the fix, the customer must add several settings to the [Config] section of the sametime.ini file.
For detailed instructions, see technote #1176728 ( http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&uid=swg21176728).
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