Re: EZ Proxy without Patron API?

[Steven Moody <smoody@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:45 AM 10/03/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>We currently have WAM and are considering moving to using
>EZ Proxy for remote access to our databases instead to eliminate 
>the setup that WAM requires of our users.
>
>We know a number of other III sites are already doing this and
>wondered if anyone is doing it without using Patron API (and if
>so how) or if the API is simply required to do it.


We are using EZPROXY without Patron API...I export the Patron name and (in
our case) the University ID (but it can be anything, for instance, patron
barcode) from a Create List to email, then run a PERL script on it which
puts it into the correct format (two fields seperated by a
semi-colon...which must match exactly what is entered in the fields,
although not case-specific...we have simply been using the last name only
plus the id number).

I am planning, as soon as I get a minute, to use the macro-writing
capacities of OCLC Passport (which I learned about at the last IUG meeting)
to automate this process. 

Steven Moody

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