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

Thank you very much! That's just what we needed. I wish OCLC would add that
to the official stanza for this product.

Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
[email protected]  902-566-0581
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 1:10 PM Marconnet, Donna J <
[email protected]> wrote:

> We added encryptvar to the config code which I think should help encrypt
> the username which we did for privacy concerns.
>
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>
> AllowVars u
> EncryptVar u (some encryption phrase here)
>
>
> see
> https://help.oclc.org/Library_Management/EZproxy/Configure_resources/EncryptVar
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> Donna
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> Donna Marconnet
>
> Library Technology Coordinator
>
> Madison Area Technical College Libraries
>
> [email protected]
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> 608-243-4085
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> *From:* EZproxy List <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Melissa
> Belvadi
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 17, 2019 10:51 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [EZPROXY-L] O'Reilly / Safari EZproxy Shared Secret/Single
> Sign On
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> https://library.upei.ca/safari-oreilly-persistent-chapter-links
> <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flibrary.upei.ca%2Fsafari-oreilly-persistent-chapter-links&data=01%7C01%7CDMarconnet%40madisoncollege.edu%7C4ad8c7fe26df43a608b708d73b879fdc%7C33f001466fcc49e9b5687896b3069d44%7C0&sdata=YVFZpeCtK9kbQN0nCn1m%2FaKPrTn2Nkd%2FJ2fBwbKmhUQ%3D&reserved=0>
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> Melissa Belvadi
>
> Collections Librarian
>
> University of Prince Edward Island
>
> [email protected]  902-566-0581
>
> my public calendar
> <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fcalendar%2Fembed%3Fsrc%3Dmbelvadi%2540upei.ca%26ctz%3DAmerica%2FHalifax%26mode%3Dweek&data=01%7C01%7CDMarconnet%40madisoncollege.edu%7C4ad8c7fe26df43a608b708d73b879fdc%7C33f001466fcc49e9b5687896b3069d44%7C0&sdata=qXzJ9n2f9jjvqdtkOzgzzIYtBROrbVsPNErw9wNrmzk%3D&reserved=0>
>
> Make an appointment
> <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmbelvadi.youcanbook.me%2F&data=01%7C01%7CDMarconnet%40madisoncollege.edu%7C4ad8c7fe26df43a608b708d73b879fdc%7C33f001466fcc49e9b5687896b3069d44%7C0&sdata=jWFDm%2Fc2WP2Vu6n%2F59sEx7DodFuca4FG%2B%2F2pMIJ%2BbYU%3D&reserved=0> via
> YouCanBookMe
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> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 9:13 AM Marconnet, Donna J <
> [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]
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>
> *From:* EZproxy List <[email protected]> on behalf of Adam Pinfold <
> [email protected]>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 17, 2019 3:48 AM
> *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* [EZPROXY-L] O'Reilly / Safari EZproxy Shared Secret/Single
> Sign On
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
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> Tel: +44 (0)117 32 82548
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