Question about web sites that require usernames and passwords...

[Bill Crosbie]

At 07:02 AM 11/30/95 -0800, Ronnie Morgan wrote:
>Hi!
>
>We would like to offer Academe Today (from the Chronicle of Higher Education)  
>to our patrons, but, they require a username and password to be entered in  
>order to get access.  
>
>How would one go about making this automatic?  We are useing Lynx on a VAX  
>system.  

Academe today must be purchased by the end user.  It would be possible to
negotiate a site license, I suppose, but implemenation would be tricky.  You
could give them access to Academe this Week, as an alternative, to see if
there is the demand for the pay for play service.

If you do want to go into Academe Today, you would need to laearn how they
are authenticating users.  It _might_ be possible to pay an institutional
fee, and then enter the site and bookmark it, with the password and username
already encrypted into the URL.  OF course, if anyone exports the bookmarks...

This is a sticky problem and I would reccommend contacting the Chronicle to
see if they are willing and able to work with you.

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