COinS showed that is in fact possible to do so- there are probably more COinS in the wild than OpenURLs. I was thinking more along the lines of Ed's suggestion, (request headers, too) although I previously had implemented something along the lines of what Ross suggested. On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Ross Singer wrote: > Of course, per Eric's earlier comment, there's no reason why we can't > take what's there and refine it so that there are assumptions like > HTTP and optimize it to actually *work* in such an environment. > > Is there? > > -Ross. On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Ed Summers wrote: > I doubt I understand the full scope of the problem (never made it > through the spec myself). But I imagine a sensible use of HTTP status > codes would've gotten most of the way there. > > //Ed Eric Hellman President, Gluejar, Inc. 41 Watchung Plaza, #132 Montclair, NJ 07042 USA [log in to unmask] http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/