Firefox 57 and Zotero Proxy Failure

mkostura
On the installation of Firefox 57, the Zotero Connector was not installed automatically. Small correctable problem but the consequences have been a spotty proxy connection. I have connections for some of my sites but I cannot seem to get the connector to automatically recognize two sites for proxy redirect: Pubmed and Google Scholar, I have tried to load the URL manually and still it will not work. Any ideas on how to correct this issue??

I do note that my proxy is an http and not https, is this an issue that you are aware.
  • dstillman
    edited November 20, 2017
    On the installation of Firefox 57, the Zotero Connector was not installed automatically.
    I'm not sure what you mean by that. If you mean that you weren't upgraded from Zotero for Firefox to the Zotero Connector, the only reason for that should be if you had updates disabled for Zotero. Beyond that, it'd be a Firefox problem, since we're certainly serving the connector as an update.
    Small correctable problem but the consequences have been a spotty proxy connection.
    This isn't related to when you upgrade. Assuming you're still using the same database from Zotero for Firefox (and you didn't sync down your online library into a new empty database), the Zotero Connector should fetch your existing proxy entries from Zotero 5.0.

    As for the specific entries, you'd have to say what you see in the Proxies pane of the Zotero Connector for the hosts in question.
  • mkostura
    Insofar as the connector was concerned I do believe that is a Firefox issue. Not sure why it did not bring the connector forward in the update. I reinstalled manually. All good.

    I have been using Zotero 5.0 standalone for some time and have neither changed nor did I create a new zotero database. What I noted was that there was only one proxy in the options: http://%h.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/%p All of my other journals and sites that were listed in the Zotero connector hostnames under this proxy connected fine. The two failures that I have are Pubmed and Google Scholar, both https:// sites neither of which were found in my hostnames list. I finally got the proxie to work by connecting to Pubmed and Google Scholar through my proxy host library connection. The notification bar activated and all worked fine. A new proxy (https://....) was created and the two sites were added. This is the situation that I had previously. As an FYI I attempted to add the https proxy and two offending sites manually but that did not work at all. Not sure why the manual addition did not work since I used the same URL and proxy grammar. In any event this problem is solved.
  • dstillman
    Not sure why the manual addition did not work since I used the same URL and proxy grammar.
    Possible that you didn't check the hyphen option — that usually needs to be enabled for HTTPS proxies.

    Anyhow, glad to hear it's working for you now.
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