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Re: [EP-tech] Question on export formats in HTML header

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Hi David,

 

thanks for the explanation. As bots (good or bad ones) may travel through these links, we think for a large repository this may offer quite a large attacking flank (number of items * number of export links).

 

Kind regards,

 

Martin

 

 

From: eprints-tech-request@ecs.soton.ac.uk <eprints-tech-request@ecs.soton.ac.uk> on behalf of David R Newman <drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Tuesday, 5 September 2023 at 10:47
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Question on export formats in HTML header

Hi Martin,

I think the reason it is still there is that there has not been a good reason to remove it.  There may be other ways of providing a machine-readable means to discover exactly what other formats exist for these particular pages.  However, using link alternates is a well-established and foolproof way of doing so.  Using link alternates for different export formats was added well before my time.  I know previous developers were conscious of making EPrints as interoperable as possible by making sure metadata was both available and discoverable in many different machine-readable forms.

These link alternates do add quite a bit of bloat to the page but this is not something visible to the end user and is not particularly consequential to download speeds.  However, it probably adds a fair bit to the size of the overall HTML cache on the server.

I am happy to discuss alternatives (no pun intended), as it is not something I have particularly investigated up to now.

Regards

David Newman

On 05/09/2023 8:30 am, Martin Brändle wrote:

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Dear all,

 

what were the intentions of EPrints software engineers to provide <link rel="alternate" … > URLs for each export format in the HTML header of a single item or a results page? Is this needed anymore for some reason?

 

Kind regards,

 

Martin

 

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Dr. Martin Brändle
Zentrale Informatik
Universität Zürich
Stampfenbachstr. 73
CH-8006 Zürich


 



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