[Koha-devel] New feature for Koha (2.2) : website checking

[Paul POULAIN]

Hi,

In Unimarc, the 856$e provides the "hour and date of access", which is 
the last time the URL has been checked.
A library of mine asked me : could this information be updated 
automatically (say each week, for example).

The answer being yes, I will ask Antoine to add it during the next 
weeks. It should be quite easy to add :

- use LWP;
- search in the DB (marc_subfield_table) every 856$a value
- query the URL (in 856$a)
- if $rec->is_success => update the 856$e value
The idea being to have something that can run in a crontab (ie : silently)

A small report to show all electronic values not working since more than 
X days could also be added.


PS : in MARC21, 856$e don't exist, and there is no "hour and date of 
access". I think it could be harmless to use is as well ;-)
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