How are you moving between the two? Proxy settings aren't synced, so you shouldn't have this problem if you're using syncing in Zotero 2.0. If you're copying your entire Zotero data directory, the settings would be copied.

Me too. Worse than just being slow, some resources aren't available through the proxy that are available through a direct connection at work.

Here are some suggestions for how to add the temporary disable to the UI, in order of increasing ease of use and increasing difficulty of implementation:

- Add a "Disable proxies" checkbox to the Proxies tab of the Preferences window.
- Add a "Disable" checkbox column to the "Configured proxies" table, in the Preferences window under the Proxies tab. (This would allow the user to disable individual proxies.)
- Add a "Disable proxies" toggle to the Zotero Actions menu button (the "gear" menu button that also contains Import, Preferences, and About Zotero).
- Add a "Disable proxies" button to the Zotero button bar (the one that contains the New Collection, New Group, and Action menus). Would this be UI clutter?
- Auto-detect whether to use a proxy based on current IP address. I am not sure there is the infrastructure in Firefox to support this, and it has the possibility of making things quite complicated. But for cases like mine, having a single proxy entry with a setting for "Do not use this proxy when my IP address is A.B.*.* or C.D.E.*" would be perfect.

Please add support for this. I am also in this situation. I need to disable the proxy.

I'm in a similar stew - the proxy I use refuses to access certain resources on some of the domains where it's otherwise needed (eg: a latex template from springer.com) - it gives me a "404 Not Found" http error! My current workaround is to use a different browser for these resources. Not so bad as there aren't many such problems, but clearly not ideal!

To solve this problem, I'd need zotero to not use a proxy for certain parts of a domain - ie: filter on the whole url, rather than just the domain, as seems to be the case at the moment.

A nice solution may be for the university (or someone associated to it) to prepare some metadata describing which web resources can/must/may be accessed through the proxy, and while we're at it, which ip addresses don't require the proxy.

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your envolvement here. It's what makes open source rock (:

The specific example I met just now has this page not served by the proxy:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

with a 404 - not found http error if you try, and this page served (and needed if I'm off campus):
http://www.springerlink.com/content/5h26p8ng22018281/

with a proxied url like:
http://www.springerlink.com.virtual.anu.edu.au/content/5h26p8ng22018281/

I'm guessing I need to use the proxy for url's that start with
http://www.springerlink.com/content/*

The current preferences page for proxies asks for a 'host name' (eg:www.springerlink.com) to decide when to use the proxy. I havn't tried putting a url stem in there, and unfortunately I may not be able for a while: the proxy doesn't work from the office (where I am now) and I just upgraded my ubuntu at home, only to find the wifi card isn't initialising properly, so no internet at home till I fix it or find a long ethernet cable ):

+1 vote for temporary disabling of university library proxy.

There is another use case for the temporary disabling of an automatic university library proxy: If we want to send a link to a paper to a colleague at another university, we cannot get a link from Zotero that is proxy-free, and the proxied link is useless to anyone outside our institution.

Zotero is all about sharing, but even View Online takes us to a proxied URL.

@rphair I opened a new feature request discussion here: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/92616/feature-request-add-option-in-browser-extension-to-save-copy-a-link-without-proxy

@adomasven @felix.epp Thanks for the hint. Disabling proxy redirection does allow acquiring an un-proxied link by using View Online and copying a link from the browser and pasting it into an email or a Slack message. So your point is well-taken.

I use Zotero every day, dropped EndNote 2 years ago and never looked back. Because it is so easy to drag and drop a Zotero item from Zotero to an electronic notebook, I constantly miss this feature when I just want to make a colleague aware of a paper by posting it in Slack. We just want to be able to drag from Zotero and drop an active link to the reference anywhere. Is that possible?

@dstillman That's so simple! Thank you for taking the time to write.