[Web4lib] authentication webpage

[Karen Ventura]

Ellen,

We have that setup here.  We have an EZProxy server in-house that handles
our barcode authentication.  Then, for our downloadable audiobooks, we
gave NetLibrary the URL to our EZProxy authentication page to use as our
secure referring URL.  Then when patrons try to create an account
remotely, they must first put in their library barcode, which is then
authenticated via EZProxy, and then they are allowed to setup their
audiobook account.

Course, if you don't already have something like EZProxy in place, it
might be overkill to do it just for this one subscription.  I'm sure there
are scripts out there that could accomplish this.  But since we use
EZProxy for all of our remote access databases, this was a good solution
for us.

Let me know if you want more information.

      Karen
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Karen C. Ventura
karen at novi.lib.mi.us
Head, Systems & Technology
Novi Public Library - Novi, Michigan
248-349-0720 ext.115

On Mon, August 1, 2005 13:53, edruda at suffolk.lib.ny.us said:
> First post here, although I've been a long time lurker.  :-)
>
> We recently bought a subscription to Recorded Books downloadable
> audiobooks,
> which works with Net Library.  In order to have patrons create an account
> to
> checkout the audios, we want them to log in from anywhere with a barcode.
> Right now, Net Library requires IP authentication to create an account.
> They
> say if we want barcode authentication, we have to create a secure interim
> page ourselves that would redirect to the audiobooks.
>
> Is there anyone out there that can help get me started building such a
> page?
> I'm guessing there is some script that would look for a certain string of
> numbers in a field, and that would be enough.  But I'm kind of foggy about
> exactly how to do that....
>
> Ellen Druda
> Dix Hills, NY
>
>
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