When I import from the NSU proxy to ebsco host, the PDF is not brought down. This is because the standard behavior when the link is clicked (on Chrome or Firefox, on Win 8.1) is to open it in the web file viewer. If you right-click on the full-text link, and save as, it wants to save as pdfviewer.htm. If you click on the full-text link, you can see the pdf in the web browser. Once there, you can right-click the document window and save as default name ContentServer.pdf and save it as whatever you want. It looks like the default behavior of Zotero is to assume the full-text link is the real PDF. I have seen discussion threads that suggest that.
I want to write a little connector that could get Zotero's downloader to trace down the file chain until it finds something called a *.pdf and attach the doc name or authors. I usually save the pdfs by the authors' names and date, but if it were internal to Zotero, they could be saved as any sempti-unique name format. My question is where in the source is the code that fetches the file when you click the Zotero icon in the address bar on the browser.
I am not whining for somebody to fix it for me, just for a pointer to a logical place to make the attempt, in my spare time while I work on my comprehensive exams.