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Partial Redirect Creation Form

Concepts

The concept of partial redirection is the use of a domain as a prefix for a localized hierarchy of URLs. This is possible because a PURL resolver will resolve as much of a PURL as it can find in its database and append the remainder (unresolved portion) to the end of the resolved URL. For example, if the partial redirect http://purl.foo.com/bar/ exists and is associated with the URL http://your.web.server/your/servers/web/root/ then an attempt to resolve the partial redirect PURL http://purl.foo.com/bar/some/other/stuff.html will resolve to the URL http://your.web.server/your/servers/web/root/some/other/stuff.html

Using this concept, you could create a partial redirect as the permanent name prefix for all the resources stored at a web site or any hierarchical subset thereof. For example, suppose you created the partial redirect described above. Every document stored under your server's web root directory could then be accessed by appending its relative (i.e. partial) path to the partial redirect. This would allow your site's users to use the partial redirect as the prefix for all documents at your site and allow you to relocate your entire web and change only the single partial redirect you created without your users needing to know anything about it.

More information about partial redirect PURLs is available in the PURL FAQ.

Instructions

To create a partial redirect PURL (PR PURL), first, specify the registered user ID that will own the new PR PURL and the authorized Password of that ID. 
ID         required
Password   required, case sensitive
Next, enter the PR PURL that you want to create and the Root URL to be associated with it. In the PR PURL input field, the prefix http://purl.oclc.org indicates this PURL resolver and the string /NET/ is the public segment of the namespace on this resolver (called a domain) under which any registered user can create PURLs. Do not change /NET/ in the PR PURL input field unless you already have a private top-level domain and you want the new PR PURL to be created there. The Root URL should be the root of a remote hierarchy of URLs. 

PR PURL  http://purl.oclc.org required
Root URL  required
Finally, if you want to allow any other registered users or groups of users to modify this partial redirect PURL, include the desired user or group IDs, one per line, in the PR PURL Maintainers input field below. 
PR PURL Maintainers (Your User ID is added automatically, but not shown below)
one per line
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