Hi, What is the status of z39.50 support in 2.2.2? I have been so far unable to get it to work and it is more or less vital for the application I intend to use Koha for. -- ~ Ben Goodger ~ Please remember to FLOSS daily. ~ www.getfirefox.com
Ben Goodger wrote:
Hi,
What is the status of z39.50 support in 2.2.2? I have been so far unable to get it to work and it is more or less vital for the application I intend to use Koha for.
Hi Ben As far as im aware it supposed to be fully functional, but you arent the first to mention being unable to get it to work. Ill install a copy of 2.2.2 tonight and see if I can get it to go. Chris
Chris Cormack wrote:
Ben Goodger wrote:
Hi Ben
As far as im aware it supposed to be fully functional, but you arent the first to mention being unable to get it to work. Ill install a copy of 2.2.2 tonight and see if I can get it to go.
Chris
And to reply to my own post It appears to work fine .. just not with Library of Congress. I tried with a few other z39.50 servers and it worked just fine. Heres a snippet from the daemon log when I tried querying the National Library of New Zealand 6171/5 : creating and 6171/5 : working on results entry 5 6171/5 : connected to NATIONAL LIB 6171/5 : NATIONAL LIB : 273 records found, retrieving them (max 80) 6171/5 : NATIONAL LIB : zed.natlib.govt.nz:210 records retrieved 80 SPEED: 54.6 6171/5 : zed.natlib.govt.nz:210 search done. And I get back a page of results in Koha. So can you do me a favour, try setting up another z39.50 server and mark it default, and mark the Library of congress one 0 in the default column. You can set up the servers at http://your-hostname/cgi-bin/koha/admin/z3950servers.pl And try a z39.50 search then. Here is a list of z39.50 servers http://staff.library.mun.ca/staff/toolbox/z3950hosts.htm Hope this helps Chris
On Tue 12 Apr, Chris Cormack wrote:
And to reply to my own post
It appears to work fine .. just not with Library of Congress. I tried with a few other z39.50 servers and it worked just fine. Heres a snippet from the daemon log when I tried querying the National Library of New Zealand
And I am feeling foolish (not for the first and certainly not for the last time ...). I removed the Library of Congress but failed to notice that all bar one of the other servers I had successfully used before (with an earlier version of Koha) had also gone (or I suppose possibly changed their addresses). And the final one had the default set to "0" ... Changing it to "1" worked when I managed to find a book it would recognize. Since servers disappearing seems to be quite common, would it be useful for the daemon's display to indicate that there was no connection? And possibly a button on the "add z3950 server" page to enable one to check that the new server is responding (since lists of servers presumably go out of date)? The list at http://www.indexdata.dk/targettest/ appears to be more up to date than the one you suggest. I note that it lists the LoC as providing 100% service on 23 April. Roger -- Roger Horne, 11 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London WC2A 3QB http://hrothgar.co.uk/ mailto:roger@hrothgar.co.uk
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