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Good to know - in this case I was able to bypass the form altogether in the end. I just re-installed OS X, and was lacking PCAP until earlier today - once I got that back up and running I was able to get the direct HTTP POST working.
I've got some questions about the ISBN to Amazon ASIN cache. I'm duplicating the logic in the overdrive plugin, but I don't fully understand the purpose - is the cache that's getting created something that's persistent across jobs/Calibre instances? It makes sense if so, but I see that the creation of the cache seems to happen within the plugin, so at a glance it didn't seem persistent.
The other bit I wasn't sure of the importance of was the xisbn code relating to the populating of the cache - am I understanding correctly that that is populating the cache with the ASIN/ISBN combo for every ISBN variation of the book?
I'm also thinking about extending this to scrape Overdrive for metadata. They actually have pretty good metadata - series information is there, as is publisher, ISBN, Subjects, description, and release date. I particularly like subjects as it's limited to just a couple dozen variables. Which is the best plugin to look at for that type of metadata?
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