[Koha-devel] ILSDI AuthenticatePatron

[Claire Hernandez]

Hello,

It is available on github git://github.com/clrh/koha-restful.git Enjoy 
forking it and doing pull request. You can too doing .patch on master 
branch and sending patches to me. There is no short time plan to add 
this features so welcome if you need them.The github repository is now 
up to date, however, check regularly the biblibre repository wich is for 
us the "main".

HTH,
Claire.

Le 22/02/2013 09:14, Fitzpatrick, Christopher a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> 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?
> 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?
>
> thanks again..b,chris.
>
>
>
> On 19 February 2013 11:34, Fitzpatrick, Christopher <cf at wmu.se 
> <mailto:cf at wmu.se>>wrote:
>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Excellent! Thanks for the info. The koha-restful package looks
>     like a better fit than the ilsdi.pl <http://ilsdi.pl>script. It
>     was a little hard to install, but I figured it out ( could not
>     find a libcgi-application-dispatch-perl for squeeze, but found
>     package libcgi-application-basic-plugin-bundle-perl has this
>     module.) Looks like everything works.
>     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...
>
>     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...
>
>     thanks again. b,chris.
>
>
>     On 18 February 2013 21:27, Chris Cormack <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz
>     <mailto:chrisc at catalyst.net.nz>>wrote:
>
>         * Fitzpatrick, Christopher (cf at wmu.se <mailto:cf at wmu.se>) wrote:
>         >    Hi everyone,
>         >    I've just started working on some "connector" code to
>         extend some
>         >    functionality of our Koha instance by interacting with
>         another web app we
>         >    use. I'm wanting to authenticate users to their Koha
>         accounts and it seems
>         >    like using the ILSDI api would be the easiest way, since
>         it would it would
>         >    allow me to not have to make a direct DB connection.
>         >    However, looking at the AuthenticatePatron action,  I'm
>         not too
>         >    comfortable passing username and password simply as clear
>         text GET
>         >    parameters, so I am trying to come up with some ways to
>         avoid this, as
>         >    it's not very secure. Limiting IP access to the ilsdi.pl
>         <http://ilsdi.pl>probably does not
>         >     complete resolve this issue, since the username and
>         password will still
>         >    be captured in the http logs. I am curious what are some
>         of the security
>         >    measures others are using when using this api?
>         >    Thanks for any help! Very much appreciated...best, chris
>         fitzpatrick
>
>         I'd POST to it, over SSL
>
>         Chris
>
>         --
>         Chris Cormack
>         Catalyst IT Ltd.
>         +64 4 803 2238 <tel:%2B64%204%20803%202238>
>         PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand
>
>
>
>
>
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