Re: usagelimit with CGI authentication

> The support page for the UsageLimit option
> (http://www.usefulutilities.com/support/cfg/usagelimit/) says that "If
> you use CGI authentication, your CGI authentication must be configured
> to provide username information to EZproxy for UsageLimits to work
> properly."  I'm not clear on exactly what my CGI script needs to do.

In the script in the section traditional called StartSession, you 
construct a URL to connect to EZproxy to create the new session.  That URL 
often ends up looking like:

http://ezproxy.yourlib.org:2048/login?
user=cgiuser&pass=cgipass&url=http://www.somedb.com/

To augement this with the username that EZproxy should use for logging 
purposes, usage limits, etc., you add another parameter of loguser with 
the value for logging, such as:

http://ezproxy.yourlib.org:2048/login?
user=cgiuser&pass=cgipass&loguser=someuser&url=http://www.somedb.com/

It is absolutely crucial that the user "cgiuser" appear on a line in 
ezproxy.usr that also has cgi= in the third part (or qcgi= if you happen 
to use that format), as the presence of these options is what authorizes 
loguser to provide an overriding username.

If you have any questions on how to integrate this specific detail into 
your script, please let me know.

Chris

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Chris Zagar <zagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Useful Utilities <http://www.usefulutilities.com>


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