First Search Login script

[Jian Liu]

I just installed the script that I downloaded directly from OCLC a week
ago. The installation was fairly straightforward. But we often encounter
"Document Contains no data" error, and words from OCLC were that it was
a browser problem, nothing wrong on our end or theirs. I have doubts
about it, though.

On another note, anybody care to comment on the web access to OCLC's
FirstSearch (we have only WorldCat). After installing it here, we 
invited some librarians to take a look. Nearly all of them dislike
it, to put it mildly. 

Jian
Indiana University Libraries

> 
> Actually, OCLC revised the webscript login procedure, so any old scripts
> (including their own) should now be broken.  Dunno if Bill has a revised
> version in the works or not.
> 
> Thomas Dowling / tdowling at ohiolink.edu / http://www.ohiolink.edu/
> Ohio Library and Information Network. Please do not perpetuate the GOOD
> TIMES virus hoax, started in 11/94 and circulating again in 9/96.  Refer
> to: http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/notes/Notes04c.shtml
> 
> ----------
> > From: Dongming Zhang <zhang at welchgate.welch.jhu.edu>
> > To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
> > Subject: First Search Login script
> > Date: Wednesday, September 25, 1996 5:02 PM
> > 
> > 
> >    Greeting!
> > 
> >    Has anybody lately used first_search login form script (html) to
> connect
> > to first search database (oclc)? I used the script provided by Bill Drew
> > and doesn't work now.
> > 
> >    I suspect OCLC has created domain control on their login server.
> > 
> >    Thanks,
> > 
> >    Dongming Zhang
> >    Welch Medical Library
>