seeking a Web / Z39.50 gateway

[Ross Singer]

https://www.indexdata.com/metaproxy

It could (conceivably) run on port 80.  Not exactly straightforward to set up/use, but it works.  You would need some sort of VPS or something to run it on, though.

Alternately, depending on your needs (without knowing what you're querying, it's hard to give a definitive answer), you could create a simple PHP script using PHP/YAZ (http://php.net/manual/en/book.yaz.php) on cheap, shared web hosting that does the queries for you and returns the results as XML (or binary MARC, if you so desire).

-Ross.

On Feb 7, 2013, at 4:48 AM, John Fitzgibbon <jfitzgibbon at Galwaylibrary.ie> wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> We download MARC21 records from a number of European libraries. These records are free. Every so often, we come across a new source, and quite often, we have to contact our IT department to open a new port on our firewall, in order for us to connect to this source. We are notified when the rule is applied on the firewall and we then test the connection.
>  
> This seems a little cumbersome. If there was a way for us to retrieve the MARC records via HTTP this would be ideal. A proxy Web server on the Internet would accept a request from us, retrieve the MARC record on our behalf, and somehow return it to us via HTTP. I don’t know if this would require the use of MARCXML.
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> Does such a gateway exist?
>  
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>  
> Regards,
> John
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> John Fitzgibbon
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