Post method for libraries
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	• bzimport
	Dec 2 2010, 8:25 PM

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Author: ferdemza

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Several libraries can only accept POST requests, making impossible to add them to the list of Book Sources.

Examples are

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Book_sources#Columbus_Metropolitan_Library

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Book_sources#Link_to_State_University_of_Campinas_-_Brazil

among others

It would be great if there is a way to make a POST request, something like this:

[POST|http://acervus.bc.unicamp.br/index.asp?modo_busca=rapida&content=resultado&iIdioma=0 rapida_filtro=isbn_issn&rapida_campo=MAGICNUMBER&rapida_bib=0&submeteu=rapida
Find this book]

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Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Book_sources

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:14 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-General.

• bzimport set Reference to bz26210.

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• bzimport created this task.Dec 2 2010, 8:25 PM

Considered mailing the libraries instead and telling them to fix their searchengines so that they are "usable" ?

I see no reason why we should 'hack' mediawiki for such highly specialized and underutilized features just for "2 libraries", it makes no sense.

ferdemza wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

Considered mailing the libraries instead and telling them to fix their
searchengines so that they are "usable" ?

I see no reason why we should 'hack' mediawiki for such highly specialized and
underutilized features just for "2 libraries", it makes no sense.

Actually there are several libraries that uses POST instead of GET. I sent a couple of emails some time ago but unfortunately I didn't get a reply.
I thought it would be easier to change mediawiki because there is an active developer group.

Best Regards

(In reply to comment #1)

I see no reason why we should 'hack' mediawiki for such highly specialized and
underutilized features just for "2 libraries", it makes no sense.

I agree. And the default Special:BookSources in vanilla MediaWiki works just fine.

Just like we don't support POST for normal external links, I see no reason to change it for this one page.

• demon unsubscribed.Dec 16 2014, 6:10 PM

Closing this out per above comments; I tend to worry about the potential for abuse of a general POSTing interface as well.

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