PWB and Gale databases

sraymond · Post by **sraymond** » Wed May 17, 2006 10:55 am

We are trying to use PWB in kiosk mode to limit patrons to catalog/database access and have been pretty successful. However, one of the databases - Gale Academic ASAP is presenting a problem. The title list in this database is not a text file like other Gale databases, it's a redirected webpage which goes to Gale's website. If I do not allow access to www.Gale.com, PWB crashes. No idea why this is happening. I don't have a problem with crazed library patrons cruising the entirety of the Gale website, but it isn't strictly speaking a catalog/database use and would rather limit folks to just the title list, but because the link is actually a redirect, it doesn't seem to want to allow that. The crashing if I block access when patrons click on the title list link is troublesome, however.
any thoughts?
appreciatively, -smr

Post by **Scott** » Wed May 17, 2006 7:28 pm

You should be able to allow only the redirected page and not the entire Gale.com site.

If you want to give the steps to connect to the database I can give you the list that would be required in your filter file.

--Scott

sraymond · Post by **sraymond** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:15 am

Well, it might be tricky for you to recreate as it is a licensed database and one needs a library card number to access. If you'd like me to send you a "guest pass" number, please reply to me off forum (sraymond@minlib.net) and I'll send one directly to you. Here's the sequence....

go to
http://www.mmrls.org/homeaccess.html
and type in the guest pass number
Click on
Expanded Academic ASAP Plus
proceed
the click on the Title List hyperlink.

If I put in
+www.gale.com
in the access list, it works, though allowing patrons to wander the entrie Gale site.

if I do not put that in or just put in
+www.gale.com/Title_lists/
it crashes with a PWB MFC application error message.

thanks Scott!

Post by **Scott** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:28 am

Please send a copy of your INI file, and URL filter file, to Support@TeamSoftwareSolutions.com, along with a guest account and the steps to take to recreate the problem.

We should be able offer a solution if we can create the problem.

--Scott