[Bug] Zotero Connector recognizes profile links as authors named "View Profile"

chrt0 · 2026-07-14T14:24:08+00:00

I installed Zotero Connector as a Firefox extension. The version of the extension is 5.0.210.

Occasionally when I pull a reference, profile links are wrongly recognized as authors named "View Profile". Without double checking (which I really should), I just submitted a paper containing references to Dr. View Profile's work...

Here is a random example: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1932681.1863568

The paper has two authors A and B, but Zotero Connector recognizes four authors: A, View Profile, B, View Profile.

Thank you very much.

adamsmith · 2026-07-14T16:01:08+00:00

I'm not seeing this. When you hover over the Save to Zotero icon, what does it say (it'll say something starting with "Save to Zotero")?

warguelles · 2026-07-14T22:59:42+00:00

I don't see any problems either:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u2580262/m7s4svqufc1un8tjjlol.png

chrt0 · 2026-07-15T02:50:34+00:00

Here are the screenshots for the "Zotero Connector" extension button and the wrong entry. I noticed that the problem only appear when the request is redirected through saved proxies. In the first picture, what I blocked out is the URL associated with our institute's proxy. After I turn off "Enable proxy redirection", the problem is gone.

Normally, I have all these enabled:
- Enable proxy redirection
- Show a notification when redirecting through a proxy
- Automatically detect new proxies

and the proxy seems to work as intended most of the time.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u6904251/lalarr5n5w87ts0ifqou.jpg

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u6904251/mzltgziglbk1zrdgb1dw.png

adamsmith · 2026-07-15T06:45:27+00:00

Thanks, I can reproduce that -- it looks like the proxy breaks the metadata lookup for ACM and Zotero then falls back to a more generic import that's more error prone (note that it also omits the subtitle of the piece, e.g.)

@AbeJellinek is that something you could look at? Here's connector debug for an attempt to save from the above page with proxy, showing failure and fallback to Atypon: D553899706