Anonymous OPAC Search History
Hello all, I have a question about this commit (I didn't succeed to find the corresponding bug in Bugzilla) commit feeafa8168965183ba8651cf3113c3c32af863ec Author: Henri-Damien LAURENT <henridamien.laurent@biblibre.com> AuthorDate: Mon Aug 24 22:10:25 2009 +0200 Commit: Henri-Damien LAURENT <henridamien.laurent@biblibre.com> CommitDate: Wed Sep 30 11:22:21 2009 +0200 Adding Opac-SearchHistory feature Enables ppl to store their search history and delete the whole history Adding Storable required by Opac-Search-History Signed-off-by: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt@gmail.com> It adds the possibility for users to store their search queries. It's possible for both logged users and anonymous users. More than that, if an anonymous user with a search history log in, the whole anonymous history is loaded and stored as the user search history. Isn't there any privacy problems with this feature? I mean, if user_1 do some search as an anonymous user, and then user_2 go on the same computer and log in, the whole user_1 search history is saved into user_2 search history. This behaviour has been reported as a bug by some BibLibre customers, that's why I ask. -- Julian Maurice <julian.maurice@biblibre.com> BibLibre
Le 05/01/2012 16:39, Julian Maurice a écrit :
Hello all,
This behaviour has been reported as a bug by some BibLibre customers, that's why I ask. Just to add my voice: this behaviour was explicitely requested by the BibLibre customer that funded the feature. The idea behind it was: usually, users start anonymous, then they find their query interesting, they want to "save" it, so they say "sh.t, i'm not logged it". With this behaviour, they just log in and it's OK.
I agree that the problem reported by Julian is a tricky one, because we would loose this behaviour... -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08
* Julian Maurice (julian.maurice@biblibre.com) wrote:
Hello all,
I have a question about this commit (I didn't succeed to find the corresponding bug in Bugzilla)
commit feeafa8168965183ba8651cf3113c3c32af863ec Author: Henri-Damien LAURENT <henridamien.laurent@biblibre.com> AuthorDate: Mon Aug 24 22:10:25 2009 +0200 Commit: Henri-Damien LAURENT <henridamien.laurent@biblibre.com> CommitDate: Wed Sep 30 11:22:21 2009 +0200
Adding Opac-SearchHistory feature
Enables ppl to store their search history and delete the whole history
Adding Storable required by Opac-Search-History
Signed-off-by: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt@gmail.com>
It adds the possibility for users to store their search queries. It's possible for both logged users and anonymous users. More than that, if an anonymous user with a search history log in, the whole anonymous history is loaded and stored as the user search history.
Isn't there any privacy problems with this feature? I mean, if user_1 do some search as an anonymous user, and then user_2 go on the same computer and log in, the whole user_1 search history is saved into user_2 search history.
This behaviour has been reported as a bug by some BibLibre customers, that's why I ask.
I can see it as a bug, in that you get history that isnt yours. But since there is no way to know who it was .. I don't think it is a privacy issue. Unless you are standing behind someone watching them search so know who it was before you anyway :-) Chris
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