Read eId with react

[Jordy Vanhentenrijk]

Dear,

We are using a react js webapp and want to implement an EID card reader function for our clients. 
Is this possible in react javascript and how? I am very new to eid implementation. 

Thanks in advance. 

[Wouter Verhelst]

Hi Jordy,

Not directly. There is no portable way to access the eID from Javascript.

What is possible:

• Have your users authenticate to a server, and provide an API from that server for your React app. This can use the official middleware.
• Provide an add-on for the browsers that you wish to support, to provide the necessary access to the middleware to read out the data on the card. You'll have to write the add-on yourself, but it's definitely possible to do something like this for every browser. Make sure to consider the privacy issues of this option if you go down that route, however.
• Some browsers provide (browser-specific) APIs that allow to communicate with the USB bus. You can, theoretically, access the smart card over those APIs and talk to the card that way. You would, however, have to implement all the low level code that is in the middleware yourself; for that reason, I wouldn't recommend this method.

Regards,

Jordy Vanhentenrijk schreef op vr 20-03-2020 om 02:20 [-0700]:

[Luc Saffre]

For the second point in Wouter's list, I wrote a tool which is used by our customers: https://eidreader.lino-framework.org/
It's free software and we would love to hear that it is useful to others as well.

Luc

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[Jordy Vanhentenrijk]

Hello Luc,

I will give it a try, many thanks!

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