Re: [IUG] OCLC URL problem

[Michael Kreyche <mkreyche at kent dot edu>]

Stephen McLaughlin wrote:
> This problem outlined below was reported to me by one of our catalogers.
> The question is, is it an OCLC or a Millennium issue? Has anyone else
> encountered this problem?

It's an OCLC issue. They have promised a fix in the next version of the 
client.

Mike

> I have noticed a recent problem with URLs in records downloaded from
> OCLC. If there is an underscore "_" in the URL, its position is being
> shifted. For example, the record as created in OCLC has the URL
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> http://sfgov.org/site/sfenvironment_meeting.asp?id=39021
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> When this record was exported to our Millennium system, it appeared as
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> http://sfgov.org/site/sfenvironmen_tmeeting.asp?id=39021
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> [Note that the "T" in "environment" has been prefixed to the word
> "meeting"]
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> This has happened a couple of times in the last few months. If you use
> the hex code "%5F" (which was required by OCLC up until a recent
> upgrade) instead of the underscore, there is no problem.
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> Has anybody else notice this problem? And hopefully figured out a
> solution?
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