We have a requirement to put a email address including the "@" sign in a Siteminder login.fcc page. How do we place an "@" sign in a login.fcc file.

Article Id: 51526

Status: Published

Updated On: 14-02-2018 07:01

Legacy Id: TEC529284

Products:

CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder) , AXIOMATICS POLICY SERVER , CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder) , CA Single Sign-On , CA Single Sign-On

Issue/Introduction:

Description:

The "@" is used by Siteminder as a preprocessor variable to encode special variables. If you wish to embed "@" in a .fcc page you can use the HTML escape code : &#64 for example:
<a href="mailto:fred&#64sample.com">this is a test</a>

Solution:

The "@" symbol is internally by siteminder as a special escape character to indicate a siteminder specific variable usage for all .fcc pages.

To embed a normal "@" in a siteminder .fcc file you need to use the HTML encoding for the @ sign which is &#64, this will not be picked up by the .fcc page processing but will display as a normal "@" for the end user that gets the page.

To embed "@" in a .fcc page you can use the HTML code : &#64 for example:
<a href="mailto:fred&#64sample.com">this is a test</a>

Environment:

Release:
Component: SMPLC