Zotero connector proxy setup

First, thank the author of this for the great job. I was using it smoothly in the past few years.

However, I just moved to a new institution and the proxy rule is a little bit different so I have difficulty setting it up right now.

The new proxy behaves like this, for example,
journals.aps.org -> journals-aps-proxy.fnal.gov

Notice that the dots are replaced by dashes. I did not find any button in the zotero connector settings to automatically convert between these. And the 'org' is removed.

My current setup is:
login scheme: https://%h-proxy-fnal.gov/mellon/login?ReturnTo=%u
proxied URL scheme: %h-proxy.fnal.gov/%p
hostnames: journals.aps.org

If I manually enter the proxied webpage, for example, https://journals-aps-proxy.fnal.gov/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.45.3415, the login page I got is
https://journals-aps-proxy.fnal.gov/mellon/login?ReturnTo=https://journals-aps-proxy.fnal.gov/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.45.3415&IdP=https://idp.fnal.gov/idp/shibboleth

But if I directly go to journals.aps.org, it does not automatically convert to the proxied webpage. i.e. the Zotero proxy behaves like I have never set it up.

I'm sure I have turned on 'automatically detect new proxies', but when I open the proxied webpage, there is no pop-up window asking me whether to add this website to my proxies.

Can anyone help me to set it up?
  • A generic configuration isn't going to work for that. %h is a placeholder for the hostname, and "journals-aps" isn't an actual hyphenated hostname — that seems to be some unique identifier that your institution (or the proxy vendor) has assigned to that specific site. A normal EZproxy setup would be journals-aps-org.proxy.fnal.gov, so the scheme would be %h.proxy.fnal.gov. I don't recall ever seeing a proxy setup like this.

    I'm afraid the only way you could do this would be by creating individual proxy entries (not host entries) for each site, with the unique identifier hard-coded into the URL without a %h variable.
  • Thank you for your reply. So sad to hear that. Maybe I have to manually do this.
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