Hello! I use a simple solution for a few of my clients where they are accessing e-journals and e-books from their OPAC. Essentially all of the e-content providers in India offer IP based authentication. So there is a Squid proxy server on the campus that is available. I have a few external helper auth scripts for squid that query the Koha db's borrowers table. This is how it all works in my cases:
1. Library user visits the opac from an on premise desktop using the Koha OPAC. The e-content records carry the resource links in 856$u 2. The PCs used have an proxy autoconfig file (.pac) file configured in their network settings. The PAC file is designed to proxy only for the e-content, for everything else, it is a passthru. 3. When people click the URL in 856$u, the PAC file catches it and directs the request to the Squid proxy. 4. Squid proxy does not yet know who is requesting, so it dispatches the request to my custom auth helper script. 5. The auth helper script pops up a http auth dialog on the user's desktop, where they enter their Koha db user name and password (which they otherwise use to login into the OPAC) 6. user keys in the credentials. the script takes these and checks against the Koha DB's borrowers table. if existing and the account has not been barred due to any reason, it informs SQUID to allow it. 7. User get the requested URL served up on the browser. Additonally the script maintains login data in the Koha database in a custom table, which provides accounting. The management and reporting part is packaged as a Koha plugin. this helps as now users can even access to their subscribed content from even outside the campus as these specific requests are routed through the proxy server which is on the approved IP address block registered with the content provider. hope this helps -idg On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:39 PM, SAIACS, Chief Librarian <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I would like to hear your experience on authenticating library users from > KOHA OPAC to access subscribed content. We are using KOHA 3.18. Your insights > will be helpful to develop one for our library. we do subscribe to JSTOR, > ebooks from EBSCO and others. > > Thanks > > Yesan Sellan, B.Com., MLISc., PGDLAN, UGC-NET., BCS > Chief Librarian > South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS) > 363 Dodda Gubbi Cross Road, Kothanur P.O., Bangalore 77, India > Phone: 91 80 2846 5235/5344/ 5649, Fax: 91 80 28465412, Mobile: 91-9972348251 > Website: www.saiacs.org Alternative Email: [email protected] or > [email protected] > > > ______________________________________ > IMPORTANT : This message is intended only for the addressee. It may contain > confidential information. Any unauthorized disclosure is strictly prohibited. > If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately so > that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original > message. Thank you. > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
