About the .NET Search Interface URL Shortener
Example: Dashboards such as Case Consoles or Account Consoles can produce very long URLs.
A long URL becomes a problem when it exceeds the 2083-character URL length limit of Internet Explorer. The browser truncates longer URLs, causing various types of errors.
The Coveo .NET Front-End servers support a URL shortener feature that overcomes this problem. The URL shortener stores the original URL parameters in a database, and rather passes a 24-character alphanumeric reference string to the browser.
Example: A more than 2083-character long original URL is reduced to the following shortened URL:
http://localhost:8080/#s=4f4d03636e92f50a8ceebe8f
A shorter URL is also more elegant to share and can be included in a Tweet.
The Coveo .NET Search Interface URL shortener feature requirements are:
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Front-End servers must have access to a MongoDB database where the shortened URLs are stored (see Installing MongoDB on a Server).
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On each Coveo .NET Front-End server, you must configure and enable the URL shortener feature (see Enabling the URL Shortener Database).