Hello,

I'm wondering what the zURL syntax is if the database you're trying to search requires authentication?

Thank you!

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Gocho commented

I don't know any user/password protected database to test, but the usual is:

user:password@server:port/database

user:password@z3950.loc.gov:7090/Voyager

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schildi commented

As far as I can see in chapter 3.1 of "YAZ User’s Guide and Reference" ( http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/doc/yaz.pdf ) the syntax is

user=<username>,password=<password>:<host>:<port>/<database>

These credentials have to be separated from the URL and passed as options to function yaz_connect
as
mixed yaz_connect ( string zurl [, mixed options] )
see http://www.php-resource.de/handbuch/function.yaz-connect.htm

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schildi commented
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new z3950.module-credentials.patch1.34 KB

after having a first look at the sources I set up a patch to pass credentials as options.
But it needs to be cross checked by somebody!
It looks that user/password are accepted by "Deutsche Bibliothek" even when not receiving a valid result. But this might have a different reason. So please check the attached patch.

Deutsche Bibliothek (using SUTRS and UNIMARC as default):
user=gast,password=gast:z3950.dbf.ddb.de:210/iltis