[Web4lib] creating a link that bypasses username and password page

[Binkley, Peter]

If you use EZProxy, you could route these links through your EZProxy instance and configure EZProxy to provide the user name and password using the V configuration line (see http://www2.potsdam.edu/ezproxy/wiki/index.php/EZproxy.cfg#.28V.29_Validate_.28Username_.26_Password.29 ). That way the user name and password would never appear in a place where a user could see them. If you only use EZProxy for offsite users, you would want to put this resource in a section of the configuration file with appropriate E and I configurations to cause onsite workstations to be proxied for this resource, and possibly appropriate Group settings to avoid or require local authentication into EZProxy. 

Peter

Peter Binkley
Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian
Information Technology Services
4-30 Cameron Library
University of Alberta Libraries
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2J8
Phone: (780) 492-3743
Fax: (780) 492-9243
e-mail: peter.binkley at ualberta.ca



-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of John Fitzgibbon
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 3:44 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] creating a link that bypasses username and password page

Hi,

We use WinU on our Internet PCs.

We wish to add a button, in WinU, that launches Internet Explorer but opens a page that is password protected. We are legally entitled to use this page from within our library.

We know the web page that 'acts' on the form. It uses the http protocol, not SSL. The form uses the post method. We know the field names for user name and password and what the values for those fields should be.

Can this information be included in the parameter line or alternatively can it be embedded in the URL?

I would rather solve the problem without creating a web page wherein the form is hidden and automatically submitted. Such a page would have to be stored on each PC and this is cumbersome; storing it on the web would not be legal as anyone can access the resource.

The company is not offering IP authentication.

Any suggestions would be very welcome.

Regards
John

John Fitzgibbon

p: 00 353 91 562471
f: 00 353 91 565039
w: http://www.galwaylibrary.ie 

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