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On predicating guest content display upon requestor IP address

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titleYale's SAM Kiosks

If you visit YaleInfo Portal from Service and Maintenance Kiosks distributed throughout campus, YaleInfo detects that the IP address of the kiosk is in the set of SAM Kiosk addresses and switches to present an alternate guest layout. This trick allowed Yale to rapidly deploy an alternative guest layout, using the existing uPortal installation to provide a second public view customized to the particular needs of this kiosk project.

Here's an alternative implementation story that treats IP Address as an authentication mechanism:

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titleIP Address as weak authentication

Use Case

On the basis of the IP address, we will categorize our users into one of three categories:

User categories

Yale user

Rutgers user