Shibboleth authentication loop

bobphillips
Trying to log into full-text of a "Statistics in Medicine" article

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com.libproxy.york.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fulltext/89016232/PDFSTART

(via the University of York Shibboleth authentication system)

When Zotero 2.0b.6.5 is enabled - loops around & around the authentication pages, without redirecting outwards ... the URLs it flips between are:

https://login.libproxy.york.ac.uk/Shibboleth.sso/SAML/POST

and

https://shib.york.ac.uk/shibboleth-idp/SSO?shire=https%3a%2f%2flogin.libproxy.york.ac.uk%2fShibboleth.sso%2fSAML%2fPOST&target=ezp.2aHR0cDovL3d3dzMuaW50ZXJzY2llbmNlLndpbGV5LmNvbS9jZ2ktYmluL2Z1bGx0ZXh0Lzg5MDE2MjMyL1BERlNUQVJU&time=1250592925&providerId=https%3a%2f%2flibproxy.york.ac.uk%2fentity

(i think it's trying to give a little folder icon to the second URL)

Un-enable Zotero and it works. Which is annoying, as one can't then capture the citation.

Any thoughts?

Cheers - Bob
  • bobphillips
    Cracked it ... it was the 'redirect via proxies' bit of the options tab that required switching off. Works properly now.
  • dstillman
    Can you tell us the relevant proxy entries and their settings (if you double-click) in the list?
  • bobphillips
    errr... deleted it ... but i think it was libproxy.york.ac.uk (as in the second URL of the loop)
  • ericcompas
    Also had problems with sites redirecting to odd places through this functionality. Until searching this forum, I didn't even realize that Zotero had these tools. Never saw a proxy notification...

    I've switched the proxy redirects off for now.

    Eric
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