Bug 339086

Summary:	sciencedirect and Jstor search fail
Product:	[Applications] KBibTeX	Reporter:	iam.gnu.py
Component:	General	Assignee:	Thomas Fischer <fischer>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.5.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	Should fix ScienceDirect search in KBibTeX 0.5.x

Description iam.gnu.py 2014-09-14 22:40:18 UTC

Although I am working from my university network where I connect to sciencedirect directly, when I do an onlinesearch I get:
Searching 'ScienceDirect' failed with error message: Error downloading http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=QuickSearchURL&_method=submitForm&sdSearch=Search&qs_all=A%20logarithmic%20reduction%20algorithm%20for%20quasi-birth-death%20processes%201993&qs_author=&resultsPerPage=10 - server replied: Not Found

The same problem applies to Jstor

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Thomas Fischer 2014-09-17 19:53:01 UTC

Created attachment 88730 [details]
Should fix ScienceDirect search in KBibTeX 0.5.x

Please test this patch if it fixes the search issue for ScienceDirect

Comment 2 iam.gnu.py 2014-09-18 05:54:15 UTC

I am afraid that I have very limited c++ or C programming knowledgfe and hence will not be able to test it. I could however compile the Kbibtex source using cmake but not sure what I need to do with the patch you've sent.

Thanks

Comment 3 Thomas Fischer 2014-09-25 20:52:25 UTC

I have tested my own patch on two machines using different Linux distributions. ScienceDirect is now working again.
I cannot observe any problems with JSTOR. Maybe you problems were only temporary? Databases go offline sometimes for maintenance...