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diff --git a/www/p5-HTTP-OAI/DESCR b/www/p5-HTTP-OAI/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..7e854eb1a7e --- /dev/null +++ b/www/p5-HTTP-OAI/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +HTTP::OAI is a stub module. + +HTTP::OAI::Harvester is the harvesting front-end in the OAI-PERL library. + +To harvest from an OAI-PMH compliant repository create an HTTP::OAI::Harvester +object using the baseURL option and then call OAI-PMH methods to request data +from the repository. To handle version 1.0/1.1 repositories automatically you +must request Identify() first. + +It is recommended that you request an Identify from the Repository and use the +repository() method to update the Identify object used by the harvester. + +When making OAI requests the underlying HTTP::OAI::UserAgent module will take +care of automatic redirection (http code 302) and retry-after (http code 503). +OAI-PMH flow control (i.e. resumption tokens) is handled transparently by +HTTP::OAI::Response. |