Ralph, I see how you do it, thanks, Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: LeVan,Ralph [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 March 2004 15:56
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Database URL in EchoedRequests


I've gotten around the problem completely without needing to echo the URL.
I've got a stylesheet client that does everything I need.

Try looking at http://alcme.oclc.org/srw/search/GSAFD

Ralph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oldroyd, Bill [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:07 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Database URL in EchoedRequests
>
>
> Ralph,
>
> Have you worked out a solution to this problem ?. Not having
> the Database
> URL in the response makes it difficult to code a very thin
> client (i.e XSLT
> only), also it means that if the response becomes separated
> from the process
> that knows the URL used to generate this response, there is no way of
> knowing where the search was performed. For example if you
> save a response,
> without adding the URL to the response data, there is no
> means of knowing
> where the search was performed.
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LeVan,Ralph [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 28 January 2004 18:02
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Database URL in EchoedRequests
>
>
> How do you guys feel about having the SRU server put the
> database URL into
> the EchoedRequest part of the response?
>
> There is no problem when I use forms.  The problem is getting
> back to my
> starting point when I use anchors.  Here's the scenario:
>
> I send in the URL: http://oclc.org/SRW/test and I get back an
> explainResponse which gets rendered into a search screen.
> The search screen
> has a form with no action attribute in it.  That causes the
> browser to send
> the form back to the same URL as before and my search works
> perfectly.  I
> get a searchRetrieveResponse which is rendered into a results
> screen.  Now,
> I'd like an anchor that points me back to the search screen.
> But if I use
> <a>Home</a>, I get sent back to http://oclc.org/SRW.  The
> browser thinks
> that "test" was a document in directory SRW and uses that
> directory as the
> base URL for the anchor href.
>
> Now, I can get around this by replacing <a href="">Home</a> with <form
> method="get"><input type="submit" value="Home"></form>, but
> that's just a
> little clumsy.  The cleaner mechanism would be to have the
> server echo back
> the base URL.  Then generated HTML could actually use a
> <base> element.
>
> Not a show stopper, just a thought.
>
> Ralph
>
>
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