• 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