Re: [Handle-info] Look Ma, No Plugins!

[Sean Reilly <sreilly@cnri.reston.va.us>]

Hi Tony,

Does your javascript library actually speak the handle protocol or  
does it require an openhandle service?  If the latter I would think  
that such a service would eventually have the same scaling issues the  
hdl.handle.net and dx.doi.org proxy services.  A full port of the HCL,  
or at least the resolution parts, to javascript would mean that the  
handles could be resolved natively from web browsers without requiring  
any centralized service and therefore in a more scalable, reliable  
way.  Of course it could fall back to openhandle or even a simple  
redirect to the handle proxy if native resolution wasn't possible.

Would you happen to know if it is possible to write a full handle  
client using javascript?  Is javascript permitted to perform HTTP  
queries (or even better, use TCP or UDP) to hosts other than the one  
from which it came?  I would think that a real native handle client,  
that speaks the handle protocol, in javascript could be incredibly  
useful.  If the network connection restrictions mentioned above aren't  
an issue then I would love to work on something like this.

Thanks,
Sean

On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Hammond, Tony wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Just posted this entry to CrossTech about JavaScript port of (part  
> of) the
> (Java) HCL library.
>
> September 22, 2008
> Look Ma, No Plugins!
> http://www.crossref.org/CrossTech/2008/09/look_ma_no_plugins.html
>
> (The app mentioned at end of post is kind of fun.)
>
> Tony

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