Re: [Handle-info] redundancy questions

[consultmdb@nypl.org]

>The URL for the handle server process shouldn't be significant and I
>would advise against directly addressing the handle server's HTTP
>interface for any reason other than testing/debugging.  The handle
>server is contacted by handle clients using its IP address (not domain/
>host name) primarily using the native handle protocol over port 2641
>(UDP and TCP with a fallback to HTTP).

I'm thinking here primarily of non-handle-protocol-aware clients... There's
no way to embed a handle in a Web page without using a HTTP URL, is there?
And then doesn't using the domain name make more sense than an IP address?
Our ISP is far more likely to change our IP address allocation then we are
likely to lose our domain.

Michael


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