ILL forms on Web

[William Oldfield]

The security offered by the .htaccess file stops the world from using our
ILL service.

If a person comes into the Library and uses our Electronic form (which we
prefer) or fills out a paper ILL request, they must be valid users or our
ILL departemnt does not fill the order.  I am sure that any ILL department
checks to see if a borrower is a valid user before working on the order and
the electronic submission method is no different.

I believe our ILL Department checks the email address, does a finger on the
student or checks our patron database to verify the borrower information.


At 1:19 PM 2/13/96, Jerilyn Veldof wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, William Oldfield wrote:
>
>> Helen...
>>
>> At UW we simply restrict access to the form and the cgi script to computers
>> in the UW domain.  Using the .htaccess file for this purpose means that
>> only users within your institution can submit ILL requests.
>>
>> It sure beats setting up individual user authentication.
>
>If I'm interpreting this right this means that non-affiliated
>users from the community need only come into the library to order ILL
>materials - as long as they are using a machine with the UW domain.  Is
>this correct?  Do you feel that this is not much of a "problem" and that
>it's cheaper or more efficient in the long run than is setting up user
>authentication?
>
>Jerilyn Veldof
>University of Arizona Library
>


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