By the way, a similar thread on the ezproxy list brought up this list: http://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/workflowtoolkit-l
Which is apparently about ILLiad best practices. I've just subscribed and started reading through the archives. Jon Gorman University of Illinois On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Jimmy Ghaphery <jghap...@vcu.edu> wrote: > yeh for us we did go with the documentation as best we could and use an > ISAPI > filter. The final straw for us as a hosted site was that OCLC said they > could not support this method and steered us to the EzProxy auth method. > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Jon Gorman <jonathan.gor...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > > I am also following this conversation, I am wondering if you consult > the > > following about RemoteAuth Authentication, > > > but still failed? > > > > > > > > > https://prometheus.atlas-sys.com/display/illiad/RemoteAuth+Authentication > > > > > > Ling > > > UIC Library > > > > Don't know about Jimmy, but the flow on that page is one of the issues we > > have. We can't trigger the system to have that login behavior. From > what I > > can tell of the logs, it decides the page to redirect to in a session > > before it ever checks the user status or the remote user header. I don't > > know how, given that, that the flow could really happen that way. (I > might > > be missing something). > > > > As far as I can tell the other settings are what they should be, after > all > > if they weren't I can't imagine that it would work most of the time, just > > not on the initial logon. > > > > We did have an issue with a session heartbeat type of thing that had a > > similar behavior (the headers would just drop off, somehow associated > with > > the heartbeat process). Thankfully we were able to disable that in the > > authentication software. > > > > Does anyone using RemoteAuth actually see that flow (get challenged to > > either register or update your info after first successful login?) If > you > > do, what are you using as a link into the system? > > > > > > Jon Gorman > > University of Illinois > > > > > > -- > Jimmy Ghaphery > Head, Digital Technologies > VCU Libraries > 804-827-3551 >
