Re: [CODE4LIB] parse an OAI-PHM response
Long live Gopher! gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/ On 7/30/07, Andrew Hankinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I haven't heard the words "Gopher" and "Killer App" used in the same > sentence for a looong time. > Thanks! > > On 7/30/07, Tim Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Depending on how locked down the php.ini file is (lots of good reasons > to > > do this) you might look into curl. > > > > http://curl.haxx.se/ > > > > Curl can work in php. > > > > http://us.php.net/curl > > > > It talks lots of protocols (including https, which is how I got on > board), > > including gopher for any killer apps you have planned. > > > > -t > > > > +++ > > Tim Shearer > > > > Web Development Coordinator > > The University Library > > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 919-962-1288 > > +++ > > > > > > > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, John McGrath wrote: > > > > > You could use either the PEAR HTTP_Request package, or the built-in > > > fopen/fread commands, which can make http calls in addition to > > > opening local files. The easiest way, though, in my opinion, is > > > file_get_contents, which automatically dumps the response into a > > > String object. And it's fast, apparently: > > > > > > http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php > > > > > > http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request > > > http://us.php.net/fopen > > > http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php > > > > > > Best, > > > John > > > > > > On Jul 27, 2007, at 9:31 PM, Andrew Hankinson wrote: > > > > > >> Hi folks, > > >> I'm wanting to implement a PHP parser for an OAI-PMH response from > our > > >> Dspace installation. I'm a bit stuck on one point: how do I get > > >> the PHP > > >> script to send a request to the OAI-PMH server, and get the XML > > >> response in > > >> return so I can then parse it? > > >> > > >> Any thoughts or pointers would be appreciated! > > >> > > >> Andrew > > > -- Harrison Dekker Coordinator of Data Services Doe/Moffitt Libraries, UC Berkeley
Re: [CODE4LIB] executing a cgi script in the middle of a url
On 7/31/07, Eric Lease Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What am I doing wrong? How do I need to configure Apache accordingly? We use a bunch of URL rewrite rules to solve this issue. We have a host of backend technologies like Perl, PHP, CGI, Java, but all the URL are equally clean. We set up one set of rules per service point, where a 'point' is defined in a rather technological fashion in addition to the semantic value, so soa.nla.gov.au/users is redirected to ws.nla.gov.au/services/usermanagement/index.cgi, including all sub-paths from this point. Alex -- --- Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps -- http://shelter.nu/blog/
Re: [CODE4LIB] executing a cgi script in the middle of a url
Eric, You'll have to enable mod_rewrite for Apache and figure out how to create the appropriate url rewriting rules (basically, regular expressions). Here's a site that gives some examples: http://www.the-art-of-web.com/system/rewrite/1/ -Harrison On 7/30/07, Eric Lease Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tim Hodson wrote: > > > In terms of versioning and user readability (you never know someone > > may want to bookmark a url :) ), you could perhaps try a url that > > looked something like this using two examples above: > > > > http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/ws/v1/facets/ > > > How do I get Apache to execute a CGI script in the middle of a URL? > > I have been reading RESTful Web Services in an effort to learn how to > create a "good" Web Services interface to MyLibrary. Similar to the > URL above, it advocates against (simple/traditional) name/value pairs > specified in a GET request. Instead it advocates for the fuller use > of HTTP methods such as GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, and > OPTIONS in combination with path_info data used for input. In such an > environment an HTTP GET request would retrieve data. PUT might create > data. POST might edit data. DELETE would... delete data. Etc. I can > live with this even though it is not the way I would have done it on > my own. > > Thus, one of my URL's might look like this: > >http://example.edu/mylibrary/resource > > Sent as a GET request, the response would be an XML (or JSON) stream > of data listing resource names or IDs . The following URL, sent as a > PUT request might create a resource: > >http://example.edu/mylibrary/resource/Wikipedia > > All of this is fine and dandy. Writing a CGI script (server > application) that looks at the HTTP method and parses the path_info (/ > resource/Wikipedia) and branches accordingly is rather trivial. > > My problem is getting Apache to know that /resource/Wikipedia is > intended to be input for the script named mylibrary. When I pass > something like the URL directly above to my script Apache comes back > and says, "File not found" because it is looking for a directory/file > named Wikipedia. How do I get Apache to execute the script named > mylibrary? I could specify the URL like the following, but it is ugly: > >http://example.edu/mylibrary/index.cgi/resource/Wikipedia > > What am I doing wrong? How do I need to configure Apache accordingly? > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan > University Libraries of Notre Dame > -- Harrison Dekker Coordinator of Data Services Doe/Moffitt Libraries, UC Berkeley
[CODE4LIB] executing a cgi script in the middle of a url
Tim Hodson wrote: In terms of versioning and user readability (you never know someone may want to bookmark a url :) ), you could perhaps try a url that looked something like this using two examples above: http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/ws/v1/facets/ How do I get Apache to execute a CGI script in the middle of a URL? I have been reading RESTful Web Services in an effort to learn how to create a "good" Web Services interface to MyLibrary. Similar to the URL above, it advocates against (simple/traditional) name/value pairs specified in a GET request. Instead it advocates for the fuller use of HTTP methods such as GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, and OPTIONS in combination with path_info data used for input. In such an environment an HTTP GET request would retrieve data. PUT might create data. POST might edit data. DELETE would... delete data. Etc. I can live with this even though it is not the way I would have done it on my own. Thus, one of my URL's might look like this: http://example.edu/mylibrary/resource Sent as a GET request, the response would be an XML (or JSON) stream of data listing resource names or IDs . The following URL, sent as a PUT request might create a resource: http://example.edu/mylibrary/resource/Wikipedia All of this is fine and dandy. Writing a CGI script (server application) that looks at the HTTP method and parses the path_info (/ resource/Wikipedia) and branches accordingly is rather trivial. My problem is getting Apache to know that /resource/Wikipedia is intended to be input for the script named mylibrary. When I pass something like the URL directly above to my script Apache comes back and says, "File not found" because it is looking for a directory/file named Wikipedia. How do I get Apache to execute the script named mylibrary? I could specify the URL like the following, but it is ugly: http://example.edu/mylibrary/index.cgi/resource/Wikipedia What am I doing wrong? How do I need to configure Apache accordingly? -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame
Re: [CODE4LIB] parse an OAI-PHM response
Andrew, I began building a PHP OAI Client library based on a OAI Server library that I wrote a while back. The OAI Client library is not complete, but it can get you started. I attached it in a file called Harvester.php Andrew > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Andrew Hankinson > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 9:32 PM > To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu > Subject: [CODE4LIB] parse an OAI-PHM response > > Hi folks, > I'm wanting to implement a PHP parser for an OAI-PMH response from our > Dspace installation. I'm a bit stuck on one point: how do I get the > PHP > script to send a request to the OAI-PMH server, and get the XML > response in > return so I can then parse it? > > Any thoughts or pointers would be appreciated! > > Andrew Harvester.php Description: Harvester.php
Re: [CODE4LIB] parse an OAI-PHM response
I haven't heard the words "Gopher" and "Killer App" used in the same sentence for a looong time. Thanks! On 7/30/07, Tim Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Depending on how locked down the php.ini file is (lots of good reasons to > do this) you might look into curl. > > http://curl.haxx.se/ > > Curl can work in php. > > http://us.php.net/curl > > It talks lots of protocols (including https, which is how I got on board), > including gopher for any killer apps you have planned. > > -t > > +++ > Tim Shearer > > Web Development Coordinator > The University Library > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 919-962-1288 > +++ > > > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, John McGrath wrote: > > > You could use either the PEAR HTTP_Request package, or the built-in > > fopen/fread commands, which can make http calls in addition to > > opening local files. The easiest way, though, in my opinion, is > > file_get_contents, which automatically dumps the response into a > > String object. And it's fast, apparently: > > > > http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php > > > > http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request > > http://us.php.net/fopen > > http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php > > > > Best, > > John > > > > On Jul 27, 2007, at 9:31 PM, Andrew Hankinson wrote: > > > >> Hi folks, > >> I'm wanting to implement a PHP parser for an OAI-PMH response from our > >> Dspace installation. I'm a bit stuck on one point: how do I get > >> the PHP > >> script to send a request to the OAI-PMH server, and get the XML > >> response in > >> return so I can then parse it? > >> > >> Any thoughts or pointers would be appreciated! > >> > >> Andrew >
Re: [CODE4LIB] parse an OAI-PHM response
Depending on how locked down the php.ini file is (lots of good reasons to do this) you might look into curl. http://curl.haxx.se/ Curl can work in php. http://us.php.net/curl It talks lots of protocols (including https, which is how I got on board), including gopher for any killer apps you have planned. -t +++ Tim Shearer Web Development Coordinator The University Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] 919-962-1288 +++ On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, John McGrath wrote: You could use either the PEAR HTTP_Request package, or the built-in fopen/fread commands, which can make http calls in addition to opening local files. The easiest way, though, in my opinion, is file_get_contents, which automatically dumps the response into a String object. And it's fast, apparently: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request http://us.php.net/fopen http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php Best, John On Jul 27, 2007, at 9:31 PM, Andrew Hankinson wrote: Hi folks, I'm wanting to implement a PHP parser for an OAI-PMH response from our Dspace installation. I'm a bit stuck on one point: how do I get the PHP script to send a request to the OAI-PMH server, and get the XML response in return so I can then parse it? Any thoughts or pointers would be appreciated! Andrew
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org hosting
In case I can't make the conversation, I must suggest Bastille - a linux package that does firewalling and IP Masquerading. I have been using it for about 8 years now and have never had a hacked linux box running it. I even had my ISP kill my network connection once because my server was being attacked by thousands of machines and never once got through and the machine never experienced any performance degredation. http://www.bastille-linux.org/ Good luck Andrew > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Ed Summers > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 5:18 PM > To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu > Subject: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org hosting > > As you may have seen or experienced code4lib.org is down for the count > at the moment because of some hackers^w crackers who compromised anvil > and defaced various web content and otherwise messed with the > operating system. anvil is a machine that several people in the > code4lib community run and pay for themselves. > > Given that code4lib has grown into a serious little gathering, with > lots of effort being expended by the likes of Jeremy Frumkin and Brad > LaJenuesse to make things happen -- it seems a shame to let this sort > of thing happen. We don't have any evidence, but it seems that the > entry point was the fact that various software packages weren't kept > up to date. > > Anyhow, this is a long way of inviting you to a discussion Aug 1st > @7PM GMT in irc://chat.freenode.net/code4lib to see what steps need to > be taken to help prevent this from happening in the future. > Specifically we're going to be talking about moving some of the web > applications to institutions that are better set up to manage them. > > If this interests you at all try to attend! > > //Ed
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails
I just taught myself with the 2nd ed. of the Agile Development with Rails book, and still found it both entirely satisfactory and sufficient. I'd get the "Programming Ruby" (Pickaxe) book too, since you want to know Ruby to work with Rails, of course. Personally, I can't handle only having an electronic copy, I need a print copy open on my desk next to my monitor for tutorial or reference. Jonathan Carol Bean wrote: I started playing around with Rails a couple years ago, then got sidetracked. Now I have a project I'd like to put into Rails, and need to get back up to speed. I have an electronic copy of the original Pragmatic Programmers book on Rails, but there are now several other books out (as well as a newer version of the PP book, I believe). Any recommendations? Thanks, Carol Bean beanworks.wordpress.com -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
