[Web4lib] logins

[Cloutman, David]

You have several options here.

1. WAM - This is bundled with III. It may be an enhancement that is
purchased separately. It is what our consortium runs, and our library
uses it for our proxy, for the time being.

2. The aforementioned EZ Proxy, which is what a couple of other
libraries in our consortium are doing. You can build this on your own
machine and use the Patron API to authenticate. (The Patron API is an
enhancement that you will need to purchase if it is not already running.

3. Use Squid, an Open Source proxy server, and write an authentication
script against the Patron API. I have a PHP class already written that
grabs patron info from the server, and it would not be hard to roll this
into a PHP authentication script that feeds into squid. If you don't
like PHP, you can do it in Ruby (for which there is a pre-existing
Patron API class available online), or PERL or Java or just about any
language of your choice.

There are certainly other proxy solutions out there. The key is getting
your consortium to set up either WAM or the Patron API and allowing you
to host a proxy in the same DMZ as the catalog. Personally, I would
advise against the WAM route.

- David



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David Cloutman <dcloutman at co.marin.ca.us>
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library 

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Lin Light
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 5:37 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] logins


We are working on our new webpage and have come up against something
that I 
need help with. I should say the firm that is working on our webpage. 
We have a log-in issue. We want patrons to log-in in just once and have 
access to all of our databases and we would like to have that same
log-in 
then cover their library account. We are not a stand-alone ILS but a 
consortium system running III. It is a Windows based web server. Any 
suggestions.

Lin


Lin Light
Head of Computer
 & Technical Services
Herrick District Library
300 South River Ave.
Holland, MI 49423
Voice 616-355-3727
Fax   616-355-1426



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