EZproxy Support (Not the typical SOCKS proxy)

[softyeye]

Hello,

I'm the person who use your localcopy plugin very well.
First of all, thank you very much to develop this fastinating program in public.

I have an inquiry to use localcopy for the people to use web-based proxy server in their own institution.

Usually, in US, many institutions use the web-based proxy server such as ezproxy.
(e.g., Harvard, MIT, Georgia Tech, UIUC, Cornell, etc.)
(you can refer this link to overlook the some universities using EZproxy: http://www.deathraypizza.com/deathraypizza/EZProxy_URL_Examples.html)

But, the problem is that it does not support SOCKS based proxy as you already mentioned in your FAQ.
(Actually, EXproxy does not support the proxy behind the flash or java application, so it's not possible to use your recommendation.)
(ref.: http://www.oclc.org/uk/en/support/questions/ezproxy/default.htm#17 )

Therefore, unfortunately we can not use this fancy plugin in our research field.

However, by putting a kind of address such as "http://www.library.gatech.edu:2048/login?url=" in front of real document link,
we can access the webpage indirectly.

So, if the address of our interested doi is "http://dx.doi.org/11.1109/prefered_file",
then, it is possible to get the file by putting the prefix as follows:

GET http://www.library.gatech.edu:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/11.1109/prefered_file

So, GET http://www.library.gatech.edu:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/11.1109/prefered_file can be executed
insted of just GET http://dx.doi.org/11.1109/prefered_file.

Therefore, I appreciate if you make the program to enable putting some user defined prefix address such as
"http://www.library.gatech.edu:2048/login?url="
before the real download address such as "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2006.255349"

or you can make the option to put regular expression including any parameters.

For the previous versions, I tried to modify the source by manually putting those address by myself, but since I have no idea about java and jar, it's very hard to fix by myself.

In addition, it might be helpful for all the researchers if it is possible to put some prefix in general.

Thank you very much in advance for your effort, and I wish I can get any comment or reply with respect to this issue.

Bests,
Sungeun

[lehner]

Dear Sungeun,

thank you for your email! I think your request is very reasonable
and I will consider it for implementation for the next release of
the localcopy plugin. This may happen in a few days but may also
take a few weeks. I will let you know as soon as this feature is
available.

Best,

Christoph

On 09/27/2011 12:13 PM, softyeye wrote:

Hello,

I'm the person who use your localcopy plugin very well.
First of all, thank you very much to develop this fastinating program in public.

I have an inquiry to use localcopy for the people to use web-based proxy server in their own institution.

Usually, in US, many institutions use the web-based proxy server such as ezproxy.
(e.g., Harvard, MIT, Georgia Tech, UIUC, Cornell, etc.)
(you can refer this link to overlook the some universities using EZproxy: http://www.deathraypizza.com/deathraypizza/EZProxy_URL_Examples.html)

But, the problem is that it does not support SOCKS based proxy as you already mentioned in your FAQ.
(Actually, EXproxy does not support the proxy behind the flash or java application, so it's not possible to use your recommendation.)
(ref.: http://www.oclc.org/uk/en/support/questions/ezproxy/default.htm#17 )

Therefore, unfortunately we can not use this fancy plugin in our research field.

However, by putting a kind of address such as "http://www.library.gatech.edu:2048/login?url=" in front of real document link,
we can access the webpage indirectly.

So, if the address of our interested doi is "http://dx.doi.org/11.1109/prefered_file",
then, it is possible to get the file by putting the prefix as follows:

GET http://www.library.gatech.edu:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/11.1109/prefered_file

So, GET http://www.library.gatech.edu:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/11.1109/prefered_file can be executed
insted of just GET http://dx.doi.org/11.1109/prefered_file.

Therefore, I appreciate if you make the program to enable putting some user defined prefix address such as
"http://www.library.gatech.edu:2048/login?url="
before the real download address such as "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2006.255349"

or you can make the option to put regular expression including any parameters.

For the previous versions, I tried to modify the source by manually putting those address by myself, but since I have no idea about java and jar, it's very hard to fix by myself.

In addition, it might be helpful for all the researchers if it is possible to put some prefix in general.

Thank you very much in advance for your effort, and I wish I can get any comment or reply with respect to this issue.

Bests,
Sungeun

[softyeye]

Dear Christoph,

Thank you very much for your consideration.
I will participate to the test as soon as the feature is available.

Bests,
Sungeun