Re: [Bibdesk-develop] Bibdesk Web Group Login and Keychain

[Novitzky P. <pno...@gm...>]

Well, all works well in Safari and all the other web browsers, so either it
is a webkit issue what Bibdesk is using, or Bibdesk itself.

P

Sent from phone.
On 11 Apr 2016 1:30 pm, "Christiaan Hofman" <cmh...@gm...> wrote:

>
> > On Apr 11, 2016, at 14:17, Novitzky Peter <pno...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Christiaan,
> >
> > Thanks for getting back to me.
> >
> > Regarding the PDF, just as there is a button called "Import", for
> importing the Bibtex reference, there might be a "PDF" button for importing
> the PDF from the scientific articles' database. I am talking about big
> databases (Scirus, Elsevier, SpringerLink, etc.) where we usually search
> for articles, not Google Scholar, where you can get the rubbish. With the
> Autofile feature it can be a very powerful combination not only to get the
> reference, but also the PDF itself from the same frontend. I know there are
> Applescripts to do this, but they are not really convenient to use.
> >
>
> You can also directly download remote links from the linked files pane on
> the right or in the item editor, if the URL is returned form the passed
> content. Of course, if it’s not there, we would not know what to download
> anyway.
>
> > Regarding the Keychain Access and the Web Group issue, I put into the
> address bar the address of the login page. It loads the webpage, asking for
> my login credentials. I click to the login field, type my login name, and
> when I hit the Tab button, or click with the mouse to the password field,
> it receives this step as a "Submit" button, and leads me to the "Failed to
> login" page. The issue is that the single click on any field on the Web
> Group is considered as an enter/submit.
> >
> > If I am really-really quick, I can submit my password too. But this is
> not the correct way how things should function, right?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Peter
> >
>
> That sounds more like a problem of the login page. We just display that
> page in a pretty standard web view, and let that web kit handle the
> (re)loading of the webpage as needed. We don’t reload or submit any web
> page, unless you ask for it.
>
> Christiaan
>
> >
> > On 11 Apr 2016, at 13:10 pm, Christiaan Hofman <cmh...@gm...>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>> On Apr 11, 2016, at 13:59, Novitzky Peter <pno...@gm...> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> I was wondering whether the following 2 features may be considered to
> be implemented into Bibdesk.
> >>>
> >>> 1) I would love to use Bibdesk to import citations and download the
> PDFs together with them. However, our library is providing a general login
> page where I have to login first to have access through the university
> proxy servers. It is https://login.dcu.idm.oclc.org/menu in case you want
> to check.
> >>>
> >>> My problem is that whenever I try to log in through the Web Group to
> this page, any click to the login and password fields are considered as
> hitting the "Enter" or hitting on a "Submit" button, making it almost
> impossible to fill in the password after filling the login credential.
> >>>
> >>> Obviously, it will be desirable to be "logged in" properly with the
> related cookie from the university library to be able to download the PDFs.
> >>>
> >>> 2) One of the ways how to "avoid" this login-hassle would be if
> Bibdesk would cooperate with the actual Keychain Access, where the login
> details for this specific page are stored. Bibdesk already cooperates
> partially with Keychain Access, when one wants to share her library on the
> local network. Would it be possible that the Web Groups will be able to
> access the data from Keychain Access?
> >>>
> >>> Please feel free to comment.
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards,
> >>>
> >>> Peter
> >>
> >> A problem is I don’t know how to make this should work in practice. I
> don’t think it is a good idea to just download every linked PDF
> automatically, because quite often you just are searching, and not
> necessarily importing any items you view. So that would be very
> inefficient, and leave a lot of junk around.
> >>
> >> As for the login credentials, I don;t have a good view of what goes
> wrong and how it could be fixed. What is really going wrong when submitting
> a field is interpreted as an enter? I mean, submitting a field *is* enter.
> And AFAIK our web view is just a web view, and it supports cookies.
> >>
> >> Perhaps web groups could cooperate with the key chain, but I don;t se
> when and how that should happen.
> >>
> >> Christiaan
>
>
>
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