Welcome to the B2Handle documentation

The B2Handle Python module enables interaction with a Handle System server (v8.0 or higher) through a dedicated client class.

Note

If you’d like to use the client for reading handles, no user credentials are needed. For creating or modifying handles however, user credentials and access to a specific handle server are required.

Contents:

• Handle Client documentation
  • General usage
  • Instantiation
  • Authentication
  • Basic Handle interaction
  • Managing multiple URLs with 10320/loc
  • Full method documentation
  • Utilities
  • Client credentials
  • Exceptions
• Authentication at a Handle Server
  • Using username and password
  • Using client certificates
  • Common problems
• Creating the client certificate
  • Creating a private/public key pair
  • Upload the user’s public key to the HS_PUBKEY entry
  • Transforming the binary private key (.bin) to a .pem file
  • Creating the certificate file
  • Removing the public key from the certificate file
  • Usage
• Giving write permissions to users
  • HS_ADMIN entry for each username in the prefix owner handle record
  • HS_VLIST entry containing usernames in the prefix owner handle record
  • HS_VLIST entry containing usernames in another place
• Handle Server Configuration
  • Replace the default certificate
  • Creating the keystore

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

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