Pubmed through Hinari is not sensed

Developing countries can get free on-line access to most medical journals through a WHO arrangement called hinari. Zotero senses PubMed when linked directly - using URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?holding=hinari, but not when accessing PubMed through the Hinari URL - http://hinari-gw.who.int/whalecomwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/whalecom0/sites/entrez?myncbishare=hinari_who
How can zotero sense PubMed through Hinari?
  • edited May 29, 2012
    I am also facing similar problem. Is their any way to introduce a site to zotero?
  • http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators
    while I would like to help with a worthwhile project like Hinari, I (and all the other translator authors I know of) are in the US or other "developed" countries, so we don't have access and can't do this.
  • I found this tutorial video for Hinari. Looks like it's just a simple proxy, which prefixes "hinari-gw.who.int/whalecom" to the URL.

    I'm not very familiar with how proxy detection and handling works in Zotero, but ability to detect or even manually set proxies like that and do a little URL rewriting so that translators can recognize the sites would probably be useful in many situations. It get a little tricky if the translator relies heavily on the URL structure and/or tries to manipulate it, but I don't think we have a lot of those.

    We can possibly also fix the target regex. Many regexes now look for the proper host name before the first forward slash. This way, the translator does not trigger on some advertising iframes that contain the URL as one of the arguments. If the user could set certain proxy prefixes, we could avoid having to relax the regexes.

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