- From: Robert Sanderson <azaroth@liverpool.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:17:27 +0100 (BST)
- To: Stevio <stevio@iname.com>
- cc: ZIG <www-zig@w3.org>
> If I use a web browser as my interface to users to search, is the form on > the web page the origin? From what I've read, Z39.50 works by maintaining a > connection, while using the web is stateless, so how does that work? In Cheshire (http://cheshire.berkeley.edu) we run a cgi oriented version of our Z client which interprets the form, transforms it into a Z query and rushes off to interogate the requested database(s). So: Web browser (submits form to) Z39.50 CGI Client (submits Z search to) Z39.50 Database Here the 'origin' is the Z CGI Client, the 'target' is the Z Database. > How would you implement that with a web form? Is the Melvyl Catalog at the > California Digital Library an example of this in action? See > http://128.48.120.7/mw/mwcgi.home Some examples of our system in action, all of which fit the above scheme: http://gondolin.hist.liv.ac.uk/~cheshire (the links at the bottom) http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/ http://chacha.berkeley.edu/ HTH, Rob Sanderson -- ,'/:. Rob Sanderson (azaroth@liverpool.ac.uk) ,'-/::::. http://www.o-r-g.org/~azaroth/ ,'--/::(@)::. Room 218, French Dept, Liverpool University, ext 2752 ,'---/::::::::::. Syrinnia: telnet: syrinnia.o-r-g.org 7777 ____/:::::::::::::. WWW: http://syrinnia.o-r-g.org:8000/ I L L U M I N A T I
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