Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows

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Accessing Web content via a servlet

Users can access content displayed via the Web Content Management servlet by connecting to a URL.

This topic describes how to access Web content displayed using the Web Content Management servlet using a URL. To create links to Web content within presentation templates or element designs you should use either a link element or the "insert link" feature. See the Link element and Inserting a link in an element topics for further information.

 

Accessing a Web page using a servlet

The following URL structure is used to connect to a Web page:

http://[HOST]:[PORT]/wps/wcm/connect/[PATH]?srv=

Non-ascii characters Non-ascii characters can not be used in the query string section of URLs. For this reason, it is best not to name Web Content Management items using Non-ascii characters if you plan to use URLs to call Web Content Management items.

• [PATH] can be the path to a site, site area, or content item. This must be entered for all types of content including components. In the case of components, this is the path to the site, site area, or content item that the component is displayed with.

• srv= is either cmpnt or page.

srv=cmpnt	This will retrieve a component either from the component library or from a site, site area or content item. You must also specify the following: source= This determines where the component is being sourced from. This is either: library. site. sitearea. content. cmpntname=[componentname] This is the name of the component being retrieved.
srv=page	This will retrieve an Web Content Management content item. As srv=page is returned as default, this can be left out of the URL.The presentation template to use when displaying this content is specified by adding: presentationtemplate=library/presentationtemplatename

 

Examples:

 

URL to content

http://[HOST]:[PORT]/wps/wcm/connect/[PATH]

Example: http://host:10038/wps/wcm/connect/site/sitearea/content

 

URL to content with a presentation template defined

http://[HOST]:[PORT]/wps/wcm/connect/[PATH]
?presentationtemplate=[libraryname/presentationtemplatename]

Example: http://host:10038/wps/wcm/connect/site/sitearea/content?presentationtemplate=library/presentationtemplate

 

URL to a library component

http://[HOST]:[PORT]/wps/wcm/connect/[PATH]
?srv=cmpnt&source=library&cmpntname=[componentname]

Example: http://host:10038/wps/wcm/connect/site/sitearea/content?srv=cmpnt&source=library&cmpntname=component

 

URL to a content component

http://[HOST]:[PORT]/wps/wcm/connect/[PATH]
?srv=cmpnt&source=content&cmpntname=[componentname]

Example: http://host:10038/wps/wcm/connect/site/sitearea/content?srv=cmpnt&source=content&cmpntname=component

 

Applying Custom Caching and Expiring Parameters.

Like any other URL request made to a Web Content Management Server, Custom Caching and Expiring parameters can be added to a request. See the topic, Using Custom Caching for further information.

Example:

http://[HOST]:[PORT]/wps/wcm/connect/[PATH]?CACHE=SITE&EXPIRES=REL+9000s

In this example, the content being retrieved via URL will be saved in the Basic Site Cache, and expired after 9000 seconds (two and half hours).

 

Parent topic:

Configuring a delivery server

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