Godmar,
It did not shut down during development, yesterday, when I developed it from home. It broke down today, when people started to use it. All university desktop computer have got dynamic 10.*.*.* adresses. The gateway does NAT so they are exposed to google with about three possible IP adresses. Or, if they use SFX, the IP adress of the Open URL resolver, or in the case of citrix, the IP adress of that machine. Anyway, all these approaches suffer from the same problem with Google's policy.
Besides all that, I prefer a clean XML interface like Amazon provides above the JSON approach of Google.
And I do prefer server side handling, since I got control over what the user is presented and I do not have problems with javascript support of the specific browser that the user is equiped with.
Peter
Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and Research Library
tel. +31 317 48 25 17 http://library.wur.nl <http://library.wur.nl/>
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Van: Code for Libraries namens Godmar Back
Verzonden: ma 17-3-2008 16:21
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Onderwerp: Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Tim Spalding <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > limits. I don't think it's a strict hits-per-day, I think it's heuristic
> > software meant to stop exactly what we'd be trying to do, server-side
> > machine-based access.
>
> Aren't we still talking about covers? I see *no* reason to go
> server-side on that. Browser-side gets you what you want-covers from
> Google-without the risk they'll shut you down over overuse.
>
But Peter's experience says otherwise, no?
His computer was shut down during development - I don't see how Google
would tell his use from the use of someone doing research using a
library catalog. Especially if NAT is used with a substantial number
of users as in Giles's use case.
- Godmar
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