Re: O'Reilly / Safari EZproxy Shared Secret/Single Sign On

We added encryptvar to the config code which I think should help encrypt the username which we did for privacy concerns.

AllowVars u
EncryptVar u (some encryption phrase here)

see https://help.oclc.org/Library_Management/EZproxy/Configure_resources/EncryptVar

Donna

Donna Marconnet
Library Technology Coordinator
Madison Area Technical College Libraries
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
608-243-4085


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Reinforce what Donna said. O'Reilly support really wants you to use the email address authentication system. We really don't want to because of privacy.  However, we do have to use the "additional code" at the end and recently found out that what it's doing is sending our user's username to them, which is basically the same privacy violation so not sure what to do next.  I emailed this list about that problem recently but didn't get any answers so I'm guessing no one else has a good solution for it.
Also if you use this method, you'll find you can't use the playlist sharing functions because those links don't have the suffix and won't work.
Likewise, patrons won't be able to just copy the address bar URL, which looks like it ought to be a good persistent link (ie no weird session codes).
Or more likely, they'll do it and then be confused later that it doesn't work.
I've put together a little form to help them fix it, but not sure how to tell people about it, so it's mostly just for staff right now.
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University of Prince Edward Island
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 9:13 AM Marconnet, Donna J <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
We use ezproxy shared secret for O'Reilly authentication  and we chose to use encryptvar too. It didn't take a year.  It did take longer than expected though. Here's some things we learned along the way:

There are 3 options for authentication and from my experience, technical support at O'Reilly is not a fan of ezproxy. They prefer you use something else.
You have to construct permalinks/stable URLs manually by adding the ezproxy prefix at the start as well as additional code at the end of the URL. If we don't have the extra code at the end, users aren't authenticated. So that's been a challenge.  Also the share button won't work because of this.
It took a while for O'Reilly to be a discoverable collection in our Discovery system, but that is now available.
We are concerned that many videos are not closed captioned. They have a cc play button but are not captioned. Response from O'Reilly has not been satisfactory on this issue.

Donna

Donna Marconnet
Library Technology Coordinator
Madison Area Technical College
Truax Rm. A3000, 608-243-4085
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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Hi all



We’ve recently been told by O’Reilly that we can’t use the OCLC Safari Books Online stanza anymore and now need to use their EZproxy Shared Secret/Single Sign On method.



I’ve just been checking through emails to this group though and finding some worrying accounts of this taking a year to set up and still not working properly!



Does anyone have any current positive or negative experiences of this new method, as would really appreciate hearing them before going ahead with this? Please contact me off-list if you prefer.



All the best

Adam



Adam Pinfold | Engineer (Library Systems) | Learning and Research Systems

IT Services, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY



Tel: +44 (0)117 32 82548



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