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Handling of added url parameters like ?fbclid=

If a public website is powered by domino, it is often wished, that urls shared to social media, i.e. facebook. But this plattforms sometimes add url parameters to an url, if this is clicked. Facebook i.e. adds often ?fbclid=xxxx. This causes an error on the domino side. See also https://www.mindwatering.com/SupportRef.nsf/webpg/0857F020A5D9B04F85258524001BF3AE

The workaround is, to build all urls with ?open at the end, but that makes the url worst readable and it isn't possible in all cases. For instance, the domino blog template doesn't do that.

Domino should handle url parameters, that are no domino commands without throwing an error. I could be a database setting, if this parameters should throw an error or not.

Otherwise that is a big disadvantage to use domino as a server for public websites.

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    • Guest
      May 7, 2025

      This is a growing issue that my team is struggling with. Google Analytics routinely add tracking to URLs and they always start with something like '?utm' or '?_gl' which doesn't work when hosted on Domino (not XPages, classic Domino). For things we can control, like adding UTMs, we can easily change '?utm' to '?open&utm', but now Google has started adding tracking without our intervention so there's to way to be preemptive or change the link they are serving up to add the '?open&' so the page will load correctly.

    • Guest
      Mar 16, 2022

      I agree it should be handled gracefully.


      I fixed it by adding this code in my head:


      (function() {
      var param = 'fbclid';
      if (location.search.indexOf(param + '=') !== -1) {
      try {
      var url = new URL(location);
      url.searchParams.delete(param);
      history.replaceState(null, '', url.href);
      location= url;
      } catch (ex) {
      // pass
      } }
      })();



      Theo Heselmans

    • Guest
      Mar 16, 2022

      it's e.g. an issue with the blog template. Currently my workaround is a redirect to the root host URL.