How to get proxy working?

megancui
Hi all,

I was wondering how to get proxies working. I have a university proxy that allows me to access websites like JSTOR. I clicked on the pop-up allowing use of the proxy for future access to JSTOR, but every time I go to JSTOR, I still have to manually login and the proxy does not automatically apply.

See a screenshot of my proxy settings for the Chrome extension below:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u9318475/iuao9s3869e4bu0o1rma.png

How can I get this working?

Thank you!
  • dstillman
    edited February 5, 2024
    Zotero won't redirect HTTPS websites via HTTP proxies for security and privacy reasons. You should ask the library to support an HTTPS EZproxy endpoint — it's unconscionable that Harvard still has an HTTP URL for this in 2024.
  • adamsmith
    The standard Harvard Proxy setup seems to be on https.
    I think you should just be able to change the http to https in the 'login URL scheme'


    (Technical:
    This is what I get when I click on JSTOR on Harvard's Database listing page

    https://login.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?qurl=http://www.jstor.org/
  • dstillman
    edited February 5, 2024
    Ah, yeah, that works. That's a different URL, though, beginning with login.. The one without that, from the screenshot that @megancui provided, is still listed in various places on Harvard's site and doesn't work via HTTPS.

    So @megancui, to be clear, you can use this URL in Login URL Scheme and it should work:

    https://login.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?qurl=%u
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