Date:         Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:57:37 +0100
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From:         Theo van Veen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: WSDL/Schemas for 1.1
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Allthough it's a minor thing I would like the "?" being part of what we call the base-url.
The reason for this is services can take (private) parameters as part of the base-url.
IMO the SRU URL should be base-url + request rather than base-url + ?request. It
allows for example to use the database name as a parameter as part of the base-url.
Anyway it gives more freedom to how the server is implemented and I don't think at
interferes with other things.
There was a discussion on this before but I think the way I propose it is more flexible
than how it is specified in OpenURL.

Theo


On 19 Dec 2003 at 12:40, Matthew J. Dovey wrote:

> Final quickies
>
> Any reason why we are using for SRU
>
> URL = baseurl + "?operation=" + op + paramters
>
> Rather than
>
> URL = baseurl + "/" + op + "?" + parameters
>
> E.g.
>
> http://myserver.com/mysruserver?operation=searchRetrieve&query=smith
>
> Than
>
> http://myserver.com/mysruserver/searchRetrieve?query=smith
>
> I've no particular hang up, apart from the latter is easier to code up
> in the WSDL (which makes me suspect the latter is more common practice)
>
> Matthew