How to get proxy working?

megancui
Hi all,

I was wondering how to get proxies working. I have a university proxy that allows me to access websites like JSTOR. I clicked on the pop-up allowing use of the proxy for future access to JSTOR, but every time I go to JSTOR, I still have to manually login and the proxy does not automatically apply.

See a screenshot of my proxy settings for the Chrome extension below:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u9318475/iuao9s3869e4bu0o1rma.png

How can I get this working?

Thank you!
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited February 5, 2024
    Zotero won't redirect HTTPS websites via HTTP proxies for security and privacy reasons. You should ask the library to support an HTTPS EZproxy endpoint — it's unconscionable that Harvard still has an HTTP URL for this in 2024.
  • adamsmith
    The standard Harvard Proxy setup seems to be on https.
    I think you should just be able to change the http to https in the 'login URL scheme'


    (Technical:
    This is what I get when I click on JSTOR on Harvard's Database listing page

    https://login.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?qurl=http://www.jstor.org/
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited February 5, 2024
    Ah, yeah, that works. That's a different URL, though, beginning with login.. The one without that, from the screenshot that @megancui provided, is still listed in various places on Harvard's site and doesn't work via HTTPS.

    So @megancui, to be clear, you can use this URL in Login URL Scheme and it should work:

    https://login.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?qurl=%u
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