Re: [Koha] Clearing "in house" OPACs
Thank you Owen and Zeno for your suggestions! I shared them with my library's computer consultant and he does not want to build 'kiosk pcs' if a solution can be incorporated into KOHA. Owen's suggestion sounds like it would do pretty much what we want. However, I'm not sure exactly what this means... "When the timeout was reached, the page would redirect to the logout script." Our library would like to see the following behavior after a designated time period of inactivity - search history is cleared, cart is cleared, account is logged out, and browser is redirected to the catalog home page. Would it be appropriate to log this as an enhancement request in Bugzilla? Thank you, Adrea Adrea Lund Head of Adult Services Grand County Public Library 257 E. Center St. Moab, UT 84532 435-259-1111 ext11
However, I'm not sure exactly what this means... "When the timeout was reached, the page would redirect to the logout script." Our library would like to see the following behavior after a designated time period of inactivity - search history is cleared, cart is cleared, account is logged out, and browser is redirected to the catalog home page.
An automatic logout feature (as I picture it) could clear the cart, log out the user, and redirect to the catalog home page. If by "search history is cleared" you mean the history stored in the browser, there isn't any way to do that through Koha. You'd have to use a setup like Zeno describes.
Would it be appropriate to log this as an enhancement request in Bugzilla?
Yes. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
It should be noted that this is half-hearted as a privacy/security measure. The meta-refresh only works when the browser is sitting on the same page and when the browser is playing along, and the browser can be told not to. In either case, all the history would still be available to the next user. If the user goes to Google, or any other external link, the meta-refresh doesn't work. They're still logged in. Then there are problems. If you do open a bunch of tabs after getting logged in, when the oldest one hits the timeout, it will log you out in ALL tabs, such that your session will seem to break magically for no reason. Even if successful, it would be pretty easy to construct at a glance what items previous users were looking at, reserving, etc. --Joe 2009/5/7 Adrea Lund <adrea@moablibrary.org>
Thank you Owen and Zeno for your suggestions! I shared them with my library's computer consultant and he does not want to build 'kiosk pcs' if a solution can be incorporated into KOHA. Owen's suggestion sounds like it would do pretty much what we want. However, I'm not sure exactly what this means... "When the timeout was reached, the page would redirect to the logout script." Our library would like to see the following behavior after a designated time period of inactivity - search history is cleared, cart is cleared, account is logged out, and browser is redirected to the catalog home page.
Would it be appropriate to log this as an enhancement request in Bugzilla?
Thank you, Adrea
Adrea Lund Head of Adult Services Grand County Public Library 257 E. Center St. Moab, UT 84532 435-259-1111 ext11
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Joe Atzberger wrote:
It should be noted that this is half-hearted as a privacy/security measure.... Then there are problems...
Agreed. Browser security/privacy in a shared computer environment can only be effectively addressed by training the user to be aware of the environment and act appropriately. An OPAC-specific automated solution really can't get around this, even if it could be "perfected" (which seems unlikely). With Firefox, it is possible to configure a shared PC to always forget everything every time the browser window is closed. With IE, it's considerably more of a mess. We encourage people to log off of Windows so that our logon scripting can perform some IE pooper-scooper routines. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) <gregb at scls.lib.wi.us>, (608) 266-6348
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