NCIP: How to initiate an http/https connection
- Article Type: General
- Product: Aleph
- Product Version: 18.01
Description:
We are trying to set up NCIP via HTTPS. I understand that this works through the Aleph www_server. But what is the URL or port that the initiator needs to connect to? http://svr.univ.edu simply goes to the OPAC. Is there a special URL such as /N that will invoke NCIP, similarly to how the X-server works?
Resolution:
The correct URL form is something like this:
http://svr.univ.edu:8991/ncip?<ncip message>
So, a full message would start like this:
http://svr.univ.edu:8991/ncip?<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE NCIPMessage SYSTEM "http://www.niso.org/ncip/v1_0/imp1/dtd/ncip_v1_0.dtd"><NCIPMessage version="http://www.niso.org/ncip/v1_0/imp1/dtd/ncip_v1_0.dtd"><AuthenticateUser><InitiationHeader>
...and so on.
- Article last edited: 10/8/2013