[Koha] error in Amazon.pm script?

Rick Welykochy rick at praxis.com.au
Thu Nov 6 05:51:43 NZDT 2008


Emrys Minnig wrote:

> Something that might be of interest to the development team...
> I think there's a small oversight in C4/Amazon.pm.  On line 101 it reads:
> 
> my $uri = "http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/$isbn/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-7879865-0184864#reader-link";
> 
> This line ignores the locale settings (in my case UK) which the majority of times breaks the 'Search Inside' capability.

Which raises another question: why is there a URL such as the above
hard-coded in the software?

This kind of data should be treated as data ... and stored in the
configuration database.

cheers
rickw




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