Re: [Handle-info] Multiple URL fields

[Brian Sheppard <brian.sheppard@wisc.edu>]

My understanding is that it’s random, but that in practice we would usually see the first URL. See "The 10320/loc Handle Value Type” in the technical manual to see how rules can be applied. I haven’t worked with these, myself.


“For handles with multiple URL values, the proxy server (or web browser plug-in) simply selects the first URL value in the list of values returned by the handle resolution. Because the order of that list is nondeterministic, there is no intelligent selection of a URL to which the client would be redirected. The 10320/loc handle value type was developed to improve the selection of specific resource URLs and to add features to the handle-to-URL resolution process."

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> On May 23, at 6:47 AM, SCOTT PRATER <scott.prater@wisc.edu> wrote:
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> Yes, that is what we have always seen.
> 
> -- Scott
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> On May 23, 2016, at 2:26 AM, Tobias Weigel <weigel@dkrz.de> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> 
>> we are wondering what the default resolution/redirect behaviour is if there are multple URL fields in one record. We did some testing that suggests that the first entry that is coming from the database interface (i.e., the one that was first ever added to a record) will always be used. Is this correct?
>> Best, Tobias
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