Message-Id: <199602071356.HAA22773@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 07:52:55 -0600 From: Art Zemon <mailto:art@DRA.COM> Subject: Re: URLs To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
Alejandro Garza Gonzalez wrote: >
> True, the title of the document pointed to by that URL should be what the
> User gets to see, and it should be left to the webcat admins to make sure
> that those URLs remain valid.
>
> Alas, URL validating is dirty work, but should be done IMO.
Alex,
I'm not sure I understand you. Are you suggesting that the person who administers the webcat be responsible for the URLs that it fetches? If that is true, how to you see that working when the webcat is used to fetch records from a remote Z39.50 database?
-- Art Z.