<div dir="ltr">Hi, <div><br></div><div style>So, I went a bit more in-depth with the rest.pl... I'm curious if there's a plan to add user interaction functionality to this? Like allow users to renew loans, place holds, cancel holds? </div>
<div style>If someone where to add this, would you take a pull-request, or is this out of scope and should this be forked to a project? </div><div style><br></div><div style>thanks again..b,chris.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 February 2013 11:34, Fitzpatrick, Christopher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cf@wmu.se" target="_blank">cf@wmu.se</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Hi, <div><br></div><div>Excellent! Thanks for the info. The koha-restful package looks like a better fit than the <a href="http://ilsdi.pl" target="_blank">ilsdi.pl</a> script. It was a little hard to install, but I figured it out ( could not find a <span style="font-size:12px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:monospace">libcgi-application-dispatch-perl for squeeze, but found package </span>libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl has this module.) Looks like everything works. </div>
<div> </div><div>I actually just implemented OAuth2 with Koha (we use Google Apps for Education, so all our student's use gmail), so I think this will simplify the authentication situation as well...</div><div>
<br></div><div>I'm currently writing a ruby gem to interact with Koha...I'll send an update to the list when I publish it, just in case anyone else is interested...</div><div><br></div><div>thanks again. b,chris. </div>
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<div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 February 2013 21:27, Chris Cormack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrisc@catalyst.net.nz" target="_blank">chrisc@catalyst.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>* Fitzpatrick, Christopher (<a href="mailto:cf@wmu.se" target="_blank">cf@wmu.se</a>) wrote:<br>
> Hi everyone,<br>
> I've just started working on some "connector" code to extend some<br>
> functionality of our Koha instance by interacting with another web app we<br>
> use. I'm wanting to authenticate users to their Koha accounts and it seems<br>
> like using the ILSDI api would be the easiest way, since it would it would<br>
> allow me to not have to make a direct DB connection.<br>
> However, looking at the AuthenticatePatron action, I'm not too<br>
> comfortable passing username and password simply as clear text GET<br>
> parameters, so I am trying to come up with some ways to avoid this, as<br>
> it's not very secure. Limiting IP access to the <a href="http://ilsdi.pl" target="_blank">ilsdi.pl</a> probably does not<br>
> complete resolve this issue, since the username and password will still<br>
> be captured in the http logs. I am curious what are some of the security<br>
> measures others are using when using this api?<br>
> Thanks for any help! Very much appreciated...best, chris fitzpatrick<br>
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</div></div>I'd POST to it, over SSL<br>
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Chris<br>
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