If you have a corporate portal or library web site that requires your library staff to log in and the site has a link to Information Portal, you can use the same login credentials to automatically authenticate to Information Portal without requiring library staff to re-authenticate. This way, you have one login for your library staff.
Information Portal does this through a process called Reverse Proxy Authentication, where an Information Portal file retrieves the login credentials from the request header and maps the user ID to a valid entry in a column in your Horizon borrower table. To use this feature, you must specify the actual column name that Information Portal uses for this mapping (along with the name of the Horizon database name) as parameters to the Information Portal URL.
To authenticate to Information Portal using your library web site’s login
1 | In a text editor or HTML editor, open the library web page that has the URL to Information Portal. (For example, you can open the web page in Notepad or Macromedia Dreamweaver.) |
2 | Find the line that contains the URL to Information Portal. |
3 | Replace the URL to Information Portal with this new URL: |
http://your Application Server IP address:administration port number/ipac20/Auth.jsp?lookup=Horizon column name&db=Horizon database name
For example, enter this URL:
http://HIPserver.lib.org:222/ipac20/Auth.jsp?lookup=userid&db=horizon
Note: Be sure that the Horizon column name in the URL is a column in the borrower table on your Horizon database.
4 | Save the web page and close the application. |
5 | Configure the proxy server for your library web site so that when library staff clicks the link to Information Portal from your web site, the login credentials can be retrieved from the request header. |
Note: Consult your library’s IS personnel for setting up proxy servers.
6 | Log in to your library web site, then choose the link to Information Portal to automatically authenticate to your Information Portal account. |
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