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Re: [EP-tech] Static Page - Log In

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Evening (for me anyway) all,

An update and updated question.

I ended up completing this using a cgi script and some clever "tricks" to keep the access token viable. Is it any easier to make the CGI pages log-in only or is that in fact harder than a static page?

I've only just finished the bulk of the task after getting stuck on a problem where my server wouldn't talk to the other server that was solved using:

'SSL_version' => 'TLSv1_2' with LWP::UserAgent.

I'm going to look at David and Johns suggestions in relation to log-in protected static pages. Any similar advice for cgi pages would be appreciated.

Thanks,
James

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:08 AM James Kerwin via Eprints-tech <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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Hi David and John,

Thank you both for this. I've got plenty to go on now. It's not quite the easy "if logged on... else..." I had hoped for, but I didn't have high hopes for that route to start with.

I think for now I'll get it working in a very basic way and follow through with your suggestions later today or this evening. I'm currently at the stage where I have the data and can refresh the access token in a bit of an awkward way so I just need to print it to a screen.

Basically there's a LibCal screen we want some contractors to see, but we "can't" give them a login so need to extract the data and display it somewhere where they can get a log in/see it. Somehow it's fallen to me as the "computer person" in the library.

Thanks for the advice and guidance!
James

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 9:57 AM John Salter <J.Salter@leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi James,
By default I don't think there is a way (can't recall seeing this) - but here's some possible options:
- write a simple cgi script in ~/archives/ARCHIVEID/cgi/users/ and use a phrase to display the page
- write a cgi script that calls a screen plugin that checks for a user using normal screen methods
- create a folder e.g. ~/archives/ARCHIVEID/cfg/lang/en/static/users/ and create a URL rewrite trigger that matches that path. The trigger would return 'OK' if there is a user present, or 'AUTH_REQUIRED' (401) if not.

Some are less 'xpage'y - so if the plan was that someone else has editorial rights over the content of that page, the last one would probably be best.
I think the middle one is the most EPrints-y, and the first is most hacky...

Does any of that help?
Cheers,
John
From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> on behalf of James Kerwin via Eprints-tech <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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Subject: [EP-tech] Static Page - Log In
 
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Hi All,

Hope we're all happy and healthy.

I've been given a task and one option to complete it is to display information on a static page in EPrints. Due to the potentially sensitive nature of the data I was wondering if it's possible to have a static page in EPrints that requires the user to be logged in to EPrints to see it?

I've had a quick look around and looked at all my ".xpage" files and I have no examples. I feel like it isn't possible, but thought it would be best to ask.

If it isn't possible I have some other approaches to take. They will just take longer and my brain is already a bit scrambled after working out the LibCal API.

Thanks,
James
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