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Life Science Identifier (LSID) Spec

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 1.0.1

Notes:
To get the firefox LSID browser working:

   1. Install the lsid browser plugin
   2. Start resolving!

Note: The jslib is not required by this plugin as of version 1.0.0.

Other things worth knowing:

Compatability issues:
This LSID plugin will not work with the plugin by Roderic Page, as both have the same protocol handler.

Because we haven't figured out a way to get Firefox to do DNS SRV lookups, the DNS resolution step is a bit of a hack. For now, we have a webservice up at lsid.tdwg.org to do the dns resolution step. To override that, one can set default mappings from a given authority to a given endpoint. One can also choose their own dns lookup webservice.


Changes: 1.0.1 Softcoded URL for DNS SRV lookup webservice. It now defaults to "http://lsid.tdwg.org/dns-srv-lookup.cgi?" 1.0.0 dynamic traversal: no depth configuration removed jslib dependency firefox 2.0 compatible (patched against RC2) 0.0.3 UI layout changed to allow closing/opening tables WSDL files cached, enabling direct cache-loading when possible cache upgrade: data expiration and configuration shortname option set RDF browsing slightly improved: configurable root nodes 0.0.2 Preferences window created Debug pane toggle Hostmapping options created Default configuration options updated 0.0.1 Options for saving data and metadata created. Mozilla download controls used for data downloads 0.0.0 lsidres protocol handler creatd Basic resolution functions written Hacks for frame excaping and DNS resolution created Binary downloads and unicode issues fixed.