Bug ID 549108: RDP resource 'Custom parameters' fail to accept parameters containing spaces or colon in the value

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 11.6.0

Fixed In:
11.6.1

Opened: Sep 29, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K52519223

Symptoms

Some RDP parameters may contain whitespaces or colon in the value, e.g.: loadbalanceinfo:s:tsv://MS Terminal Services Plugin.1.RDSFarm The configuration utility will throw a validation error "01070734:3: Configuration error: apm resource remote-desktop rdp: Parse error on line 0: <parameter>"

Impact

Administrator is unable to configure the RDP resource as desired.

Conditions

This occurs when using RDP parameters containing spaces or colon in the value.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

RDP parameters parsing has been refined to support values containing colons or whitespaces.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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