Setting up such a library is a process of several stages.
-Stage A: create the User Access account
+### Stage A: create the User Access account
Log in to MKAdmin administrate your library:
- - Go to http://mkc-admin.indexdata.com/console/
- - Enter the adminstrative username/password
- - Go to the User Access tab
- - Create an end-user account
- - Depending on what authentication method it be used, set the
- User Access account's username and password, or IP-address
- range, or referring URL, or hostname.
+
+* Go to http://mkc-admin.indexdata.com/console/
+* Enter the adminstrative username/password
+* Go to the User Access tab
+* Create an end-user account
+* Depending on what authentication method it be used, set the
+ User Access account's username and password, or IP-address range, or
+ referring URL, or hostname.
If your MWKS application runs at a well-known, permanent address --
http://yourname.com/app.html, say -- you can set the User Access
uses Referring URL, and another that uses a username/password pair to
be used when running an application from a different URL.
-Stage B: tell the application to use the library
+### Stage B: tell the application to use the library
In the HTML of the application, tell MKWS to authenticate on to the
Service Proxy. When IP-based, referer-based or hostname-based
And ensure that access to the MWKS application is from the correct
Referrer URL or IP-range.
-Stage C1 (optional): access by a different virtual hostname
+### Stage C1 (optional): access by a different virtual hostname
When hostname-based authentication is in use, it's necessary to access
the Service Proxy as the correctly named virtual host. This can be
TODO When changing the SP authentication URL, the Pazpar2 URL should in
general change along with it.
-Stage C2 (optional): embed credentials for access to the library
+### Stage C2 (optional): embed credentials for access to the library
When credential-based authentication is in use (username and
password), it's necessary to pass these credentials into the Service
TODO It should be possible to add the username and password to the
configuration without needing to repeat the rest of the URL.
-Stage D (optional): conceal credentials from HTML source
+### Stage D (optional): conceal credentials from HTML source
Using a credential-based Service-Proxy authentication URL such as the
one above reveals the the credentials to public view -- to anyone who