Re: WAM link checker

[Andrew Brennan <andrew.brennan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I should think a better approach would be for the WAM proxy to track the
results of requests through it, so that links that return errors then do
some type of reporting to the system logs that an error result occurred,
which would likely make it possible for the librarian to contact someone
at the vendor's site before the user actually reported the problem.

It *is* a proxy, after all, so the requests and responses travel through
it ... trapping the return code in the HEAD request should be simple.

... but this would be something that Innovative would need to implement,
not anything immediately available to you.  As the Innopac server itself
does not play well with other proxy servers, I wouldn't suggest that you
wait for this to happen.

andrew.

On Fri, 12 May 2000, Virginia Scheschy wrote:

> I was also informed by ProQuest that they must pay royalties to some
> publishers based on use.  This means that everytime a link checker is 
> run against that publisher's title, they get paid.  
> 
> What's a librarian to do?
> 
> Virginia
>