.. _cst-t:

CSW-T
=====

- CSW class for management functions
- write access to repository
- insert, update, delete
- CSW has no authentication mechanism; left up to provider
- push (``Transaction``) or pull (``Harvest``) operations

.. warning::

  Enabling CSW-T opens up for write access of your data via HTTP

Enabling CSW-T in pycsw
-----------------------

- set ``manager.transactions`` to ``true``
- pycsw uses IP authentication
- limit read/write access to list of allowed IP addresses

 - set in configuration (``manager.allowed_ips``)

  - IP address like ``192.168.0.11``
  - wildcards like ``192.168.0.*``
  - CIDR like ``192.168.100.0/24``