Someone raised the question of whether the LSID Browser for Firefox
looks up DNS SRV records during the resolution protocol. In functional
terms, the answer is YES, it does.
The cause of confusion is that the browser uses a web service
somewhere else (at http://lsid.tdwg.org as of version 1.0.1) to do the
lookup. That's because the Mozilla JavaScript toolkit doesn't provide
SRV record lookup. Yes, it is a hack, but nevertheless it makes the
client resolve LSIDs according to the specification.
You can disable that lookup by unchecking a box in the LSID Browser
configuration. In that case, the browser will try to look up the
authority using regular DNS A records (that "only in code" fallback
mechanism that someone else mentioned in this thread). You can also
configure the browser to provide your own local mapping between
authority identifications to authority host.
I hope this clarifies the issue.
Cheers,
Ricardo
Mark Wilkinson wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:30:37 -0700, Roderic Page
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The
initial step is looking up the authority server in the DNS. The
FireFox client doesn't seem to do this,
I stand corrected :-)
M
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