Connector won’t fetch metadata

gondolin · June 10, 2017

It seems that the connector for Firefox has some difficulties with tandfonline.com. I can’t fetch the papers’ metadata. I had no troubles using Safari.

- Report ID: 923415883
- Zotero Connector 5.0.3
- Firefox 53.0.3 (64-Bit)
- macOS 10.12.5

adamsmith · June 10, 2017

we'd want sample URLs, please, not just a site.

gondolin · June 11, 2017

Happy to oblige. I run into troubles with this three papers:

- http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07393140701510160
- http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569310601095598
- http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569317.2011.607291

adomasven · June 11, 2017

What is the problem you are seeing? It does not fetch the PDF for me, but I do not have access to it, otherwise it's fine. When you hover over the connector icon does it properly specify the translator (Taylor and Francis+NEJM)? If not try resetting the translators from Connector preferences.

gondolin · June 11, 2017

@adomasven: Thx.

I checked and the Connector chooses the right translator (Taylor and Francis+NEJM).

However, after playing around with the Firefox preferences for a bit, I seem to have found the cause. In the “Privacy” panel, I changed “Accept third-party cookies” from “Never” to “From Visited” and the Connector now adds the papers to my library.

Is there a reason for this behaviour? As far as I can remember, I had no troubles with the old Zotero Add-on and third-party cookies…

adomasven · June 11, 2017

As long as the Connector is able to access the cookies programatically it should be fine, but it might be the case that the preference prevents that access.

zurpher · February 1, 2018

@gondolin Thank you! Your fix works for me too.

I would like to know why the new Zotero Add-on requires this change. Personally, I would like to have third-party cookies disabled or enabled individually.