[ipac] HIP starting URL

[Natasha Stephan]

Ditto for us.

http://leonardo.lindahall.org

eventually gets turned into

http://leonardo.lindahall.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=leo#focus
with all the session info etc.

Natasha

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org [mailto:ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org] On
> Behalf Of Day, James
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:30 AM
> To: Dynix's Horizon Information Portal,formerly iPac (discussion)
> Subject: RE: [ipac] HIP starting URL
> 
> We point simply to http://server (http://ipac.seminolecountyfl.gov)
> which becomes
> http://ipac.seminolecountyfl.gov/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=#focus.
> 
> James Day
> Library Technology Coordinator, Library Services
> Seminole County Government
> 215 N Oxford Road
> Casselberry FL 32707
> 
> Office 407-665-1542
> Fax 407-665-1510
> 
> http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/lls/library
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org [mailto:ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org]
> On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 11:22 AM
> To: Dynix's Horizon Information Portal,formerly iPac (discussion)
> Subject: [ipac] HIP starting URL
> 
> So, the URL to go into a default HIP (3.08) search with the default
> portal is, for instance:
> 
> http://server/ipac20/ipac.jsp?
> 
> That question mark on the end is important. If you instead enter:
> http://server/ipac20/ipac.jsp
> 
> Then on my server you basically get an error page. You get one line of
> HTML source in your browser. If the browser was properly rendering it
> instead, it would be a page that said "Invalid Request" and had a link
> "click here" to get you to a valid HIP starting point--with the question
> mark on the end. I have no idea where this page is coming from, and why
> the browser is showing HTML source instead of rendering (invalid mime
> type presumably), but that's not my question.
> 
> Really I want the URL without the question mark to just automatically
> give you the same thing as the one with the question mark.
> 
> Has anyone figured out a way to do this?  I messed around with Apache
> mod_rewrite a bit, but it's actually more complicated then it initially
> seemed in this case (mod_rewrite kind of ignores query strings,
> generally).  Anyone figured out anything to do here?
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
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