[ipac] HiP URLs

[Ed Moeller]

Dene,

In going from IPac 2 to HIP 3.06a, you need to change @! to ~! in all your
URLs. Of course, if you have an old IP address instead of a domain name,
then those won't work at all. 

If you've been cut and pasting links instead editing them, you're open to
other problems. IPac/HIP 2 & 3 put a session number in the URL. This has
the potential for one user to see another's search history or My Account
information. Basically, you copy the URL from the search results and then
get rid of the session section and most everything else except the URI. 

If you move to Horizon in the next year, you'll either go to HIP 3.08 and
be able to keep your URLs, or to IP 8 which is completely different. 

> Hi everyone,
> 
> We have just migrated from one server to another as part of our upgrade
> from HiP 2.0 to 3.06a, and have found that there is a slight difference
> in some of the URLS linking from our website to the new catalogue. 
> However, some of the old ones still work.  The ones that don't work
> sometimes  have the IP address of the old server.
> 
> What do other libraries do when linking from their website to the
> catalogue.  In the past we have simply done the search, then copied the
> url and pasted into the link.  Is there a better way to do this - ie
> what is the easiest way to construct the URL  from scratch. 
> 
> We are migrating from Dynix to Horizon in a year or so, so I am guessing
> we will have problems here again as I can't see HiP 4.x keeping the
> ipac20 in the url.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dene
> 
> 
> Dene McDonald
> Information Technology Coordinator, Dunedin Public Libraries
> Dunedin City Council
> 
> 230 Moray Place, Dunedin 9016; PO Box 5542, Dunedin 9058, New Zealand
> Telephone: 03 477 4000; Fax: 03 474 3660
> Email: dmcdonal at dcc.govt.nz; www.dunedinlibraries.com

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