[Koha-devel] REST API authentication for external clients

[Julian Maurice]

Hi all,

As you may know [1], BibLibre is working on an interface between Koha
and Coral. To achieve that, Coral uses the Koha REST API. But we are
facing a problem that is becoming really blocking : the lack of a proper
authentication system for the REST API.

At the moment, the only way to authenticate to the API is based on
cookies. It works well for client-side javascript inside Koha, but it's
not really usable by external clients.

Is there someone here who use this API outside of Koha ?
If so, how do you authenticate to it ?

I think we really need an authentication mechanism other than cookies,
so people can actually start using the API.

There is bug 13920 [2] that hasn't moved since 8 months. I remember that
some people disagreed with this patchset because it is crafting a custom
authentication system instead of using some "standard" one (I remember
OAuth was mentioned).
Do you know of any "standard" auth system that we can implement, or
existing Perl libraries we can use ?


[1]:
http://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2017-January/043430.html
[2]: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13920

-- 
Julian Maurice <julian.maurice at biblibre.com>
BibLibre