Firefox Connector Settings won't let me add hostname

peterjgeraghty
Hi -

Zotero has prompted me to automatically import RIS from several sites, but not from library-search.open.ac.uk or some others.

I went to connector settings which shows the hostnames already added automatically but doesn't let me change or add to the list.

Is this list supposed to be editable?
Thanks.
  • adamsmith
    automatically importing RIS is a browser-wide setting and has nothing to do with the hostname. THe OU's library catalog/discovery layer is just sending the RIS file straight to download with no option for Zotero to open. You should be able to just open the downloaded file, though, and Zotero will offer to import it.

    That said, you should be able to edit the list of host names for a selected proxy scheme by clicking on the + icon, but I'd generally stay away from this unless you know exactly what you're doing and leave it to Zotero to add sites automatically.
  • dstillman
    @adamsmith: RIS/BibTeX interception does have to be allowed on a per-hostname basis, and the current list is shown in the General pane of the Zotero Connector preferences.

    But to answer @peterjgeraghty, no, you can only remove hostnames from that list, not add them, because the only thing you're allowing there is for files from a given site to be automatically intercepted rather than prompting each time, and you only get prompted in the first place if a site serves a file with the correct Content-Type header that would make it be identifiable (e.g., application/x-research-info-systems). You can ask the site administrators to have their vendor fix that, but at least for your example it looks like they're doing something bizarre and non-standard with JavaScript rather than serving the RIS file directly, perhaps as an anti-bot measure, so I'm not sure they'll change this.

    But just to be clear, you don't need to use RIS to save from library-search.open.ac.uk, which is already supported by Zotero's Primo translator. Unless you're trying to save a large number of items from a search to get around site access limits, you should just be clicking the save button.
  • adamsmith
    (sorry about that)
  • peterjgeraghty
    Thanks for the quick response.

    I wasn't trying to save a large number of items but was trying to just pick one to add to Zotero - the save button works OK if I select that item from the OU search first, but when I knew I wanted to add it without reading it would have been quicker for me to do it from the search results.

    Anyway, I have two ways of doing it, exporting the RIS from selected search results (one in my case), or going to that item and then saving from the browser toolbar. This is good, but it would be even better if Zotero somehow intercepted the RIS from the OU's search page.

    But thanks for your help, I'm new to Zotero and it is working very well for me so far.
  • adamsmith
    You can use the save button from the search results, too, though -- click on the folder Save to Zotero icon & select the item in questions -- same number of clicks (or are you saying that's not working? Worked for me from OU's catalog)
  • peterjgeraghty
    That does work.

    Great. Not sure how I missed that.

    Thanks!
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