[Web4lib] RE: storing resource passwords, i.e., the Chronicle

[Walker, David]

It's been awhile since I last admined EZProxy, but at the time we used EZProxy itself to store and automatically submit our institutional username and password for the Chronicle of Higher Education.  It has a couple options along those lines, I think, for HTTP POST-ing usernames and passwords.

Not every site worked with EZProxy in that way.  For the rest, we just stuck them behind a password protected part of our library site.

--Dave

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David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu
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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of McHale, Nina [Nina.McHale at ucdenver.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:48 AM
To: 'web4lib at webjunction.org'
Cc: Pan, Denise
Subject: [Web4lib] storing resource passwords, i.e., the Chronicle

Hi, all,

How do you all store/display those annoying passwords for resources like the Chronicle and other things that, for whatever reason, can't go through the proxy server? We have a whole bunch of static web pages-one for each resource-that contain this info. The user finds the title for the Chronicle (or whatever resource they want) in the catalog, clicks the link to access the resource, and then is routed to the static (but proxy-protected) web page that contains the resource's access info. From that point, there's another link to get to the resource.

I know one of you clever people has figured out a kewl way to manage this info...

Nina
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Please note my new email address: nina.mchale at ucdenver.edu<mailto:nina.mchale at ucdenver.edu>

Nina McHale, MA/MSLS
Assistant Professor, Web Librarian
Auraria Library
http://library.auraria.edu/~nmchale/
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and the Community College of Denver
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Denver, CO 80204
303-556-4729
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