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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Greetings,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">We are building an application which can have multiple OAI repositories</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">accessible through</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> the same</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Java Servelet,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">and are looking for a way to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">differentiate between them</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Our current thought is to pass a GET parameter in the URL to the Servelet</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> indicating which OAI repository to access, but I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">wanted to confirm that this wouldn</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">t</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> get mixed up in the OAI parameters and thus</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> result in invalid repositories. Our plan would result in URLs</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> similar to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">the following</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">for two distinct OAI repositories:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.domain.com/oai?id=1"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.domain.com/oai?id=1</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"><A HREF="http://www.domain.com/oai?id=2">http://www.domain.com/oai?id=2</A></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Requests to these repositories would</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> then</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> look like this:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.domain.com/oai?id=1"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.domain.com/oai?id=1</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">&verb=identify</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.domain.com/oai?id=2&verb=identify"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.domain.com/oai?id=2</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">&verb=identify</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Is this valid?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Eric Osisek</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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