Issues to look at:
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Interoperability/transferrability of session identifiers
Here's what I sent out to a list:
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A quick update on where we at UC Berkeley have gotten in our metalib X-server experimentation and implementation within the Scholar's Box.
Within the Scholar's Box, a user can do a simple search on any and all of the six sources available to the ucsc acount -- though we have run into errors when doing a search on the Oxford Reference Online (which lists return results but spits out errors when they are retrieved). Once we get search results back, we can then manipulate them as we have other Scholar's Box results.
One other problem that we have encountered: the X-server generates a session ID. We thought that we should be able to use that session ID in the browser but have been getting the error " You have not performed a search." For example,
When I do a search on "Bach" and get a result back from Expanded Academic, I get a URL: http://search-stage.cdlib.org:8331/V/EJ39YXNRVY17NILVTYBNC49S7JK1VLX5F5X46PJNJ1EGUB7PQL-02378?func=quick-3&short-format=002&set_number=001242&set_entry=000002&format=999
So we thought that we could use the sessionID given by the X-server and generate URLs like http://search-stage.cdlib.org:8331/V/HYRNNKBXGLH8HUTGCY5SXEXVPXCLTC1S4ACCM5LSQJN719LEN6-02816?func=quick-3&short-format=002&format=999&set_number=001243&set_entry=000000002
but get the You have not performed a search." error.
Any insight about how to use the sessionID properly?
