Authenticating a single web site

mwidner · Post by **mwidner** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 7:29 am

We have a database vendor that does not offer ip recognition and we cannot give out the password to our users. Is there any way for PWB to pass on the username/password for one site? I looked at AutoLogin, thinking perhaps it might work, but this is an external site that we want to authenticate without the patron seeing the username or password.

EZ Proxy is an alternative, but we can't justify the cost for one web site.

Thanks in advance...

mwidner

Post by **Scott** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 6:28 pm

We are working on this for another project. We should be able to port it to PWB. But it will be a little bit before it will be complete.

--Scott

Chela · Post by **Chela** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:02 pm

We are working on adding access to a couple of new online subscriptions on our research-only computers. For one product I've been unable to figure out a way to save the username and password. It would be very helpful if PWB could provide a means to do this. Is that possible?

Thanks.

Ian · Post by **Ian** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:24 am

Hi

Any news on this problem yet, as we have a similar situation?

Thanks

Ian

Post by **Scott** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:53 am

The newer versions of PWB have support for the Internet Explorer Auto-Complete. If you enable the auto-complete in IE and do not disable it in the PWB INI file, you should be able to have IE auto-complete the user name and password for the web site.

[Browser]
...
DisableAutoComplete=False
...

This is the way a couple of libraries were able to get around this problem.

--Scott

Ian · Post by **Ian** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:01 am

Hi Scott

Sorry, I should have said. We are a public library and have hundreds of different users on our pcs so have disabled autocomplete for obvious reasons!
Can this be set independently in PWB for specific sites?

Thanks

Ian

Post by **Scott** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:11 am

We can add a filter similar to the URL filter that would enable the autocomplete for specific URLs. I will post a link here when we get it added if you want to test it out.

It should be posted in the next few days.

--Scott

Ian · Post by **Ian** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:08 am

Hi Scott

Thanks. That would be great.

Regards

Ian

jpapier · Post by **jpapier** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:57 am

On a related tangent, to disable autocomplete for ALL urls, we have to set DisableAutocomplete=True in the .ini file AND disable it in the underlying IE? Tweaking the .ini alone didn't seem to work. JP

Post by **Scott** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:46 pm

I posted PWB v2.09b that has the following functionality added.

[Security] CheckACAccess=False
[Files] CheckACFile=

http://www.teamsoftwaresolutions.com/beta/PWBv209.zip

This will enable or disable the Auto Complete per URL. It works just like the URL filter, so check out the following post for more information.

http://www.teamsoftwaresolutions.com/ph ... c.php?t=13

JPapier:

Disabling the Auto Complete in the INI file only seems to work on our test systems. The Disable Auto Complete is set to False by default, if the key or the value is set incorrectly in the INI file it may appear not to disable the Auto Complete.

I will have to look into the Auto Complete not being disabled, can you provide the OS, IE, and PWB versions you are using.

--Scott

jpapier · Post by **jpapier** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:03 am

Scott,

We're using PWB 2.08.2, Windows XP Pro (all updates have been downloaded and installed), IE 6.0.2900.2180.

We have DisableAutocomplete = True in the pwb.ini file.

No special settings were made in IE, meaning we didn't turn "autocomplete" off for forms or URLs via IE itself.

The problem is that as soon as a patron types in a "w ' in the address bar, all other URLs beginning with www pop up. Since we have Deep Freeze on, and the machines reboot after 30 mins of inactivity, often there's not a whole lot of URL history built up.

But by the end of a busy day, it's almost as if the address history drop down were still activated (which it's not).

Any light you can shed would be great.

JP

jpapier · Post by **jpapier** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:10 pm

Scott,

Any workarounds you or others on the Support Forum might think of would be most appreciated, as this is a fairly fundamental privacy issue for some of our patrons. They don't like it when the next patron types in a "w" and five of the URLs they've just typed in automatically appear. Although we use Deep Freeze, we can't reboot the PC each time a new patron goes on.

I've tried disabling popups on the underlying IE, that didn't work. Clearing the cache has nothing to do with the issue either. Any help would be great.

Thanks,

JP

Post by **Scott** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:28 pm

The Auto complete and the Address bar drop down are two different things. It sounds like you are looking for this setting in the INI file.

[Security]
...
DisableAddressDropDown=True
...

--Scott

jpapier · Post by **jpapier** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:23 pm

Scott,

I know they are two different things. Perhaps I am not explaining myself clearly. We have the address dropdown disabled. What's happening, however, is that even with it disabled, when I type in a single "w" in the address area, suggestions for completing that URL arise automatically.

These URLs are the addresses previous patrons have visited.

JP

Post by **Scott** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 1:16 pm

Sorry, I understand now. Try this version of PWB v2.09.1 which disables the address bar auto complete when the address bar drop down is disabled.

http://www.teamsoftwaresolutions.com/beta/PWBv2091.zip

--Scott

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Authenticating a single web site

Authenticating a single web site

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Disabling Autocomplete for All URLS