[Koha] Clearing "in house" OPACs

[Joe Atzberger]

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 at 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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