[Web4lib] Contribute and EZproxy

[Sutherland, Paul]

there are maybe two issues here

1. What contribute does 
	In dreamweaver there is a setting under code rewritng to encode
or not special characters and if to use URL encoding or HTML entities
(or as they put it using % or &). Maybe Contribute has a similar setting

2. And the correct form for a url
	My understanding is that the correct form for your URL should be
https://ezproxy.mylibrary.edu:2443/login?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Escienced
irect%2Ecom%2Fscience 

/paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Felker
> Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2007 3:42 a.m.
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] Contribute and EZproxy
> 
> Hi all;
>  
> I have a problem I'm hoping someone can help with-we are using
> contribute to update our web pages, and have run into a snag placing
> links to databases on pages.  Contribute seems to automatically encode
> characters in the second half of an EZproxy URL, and it does 
> so in such
> a way that the links break when EZproxy tries to redirect.  
> for example,
> I put a URL like this:
>  
> https://ezproxy.mylibrary.edu:2443/login?url=http://www.scienc
> edirect.com/science
> 
>  
> And contribute then changes it to this:
>  
> https://ezproxy.wlu.edu:2443/login?url=http%3A//www.sciencedir
> ect.com/science
> 
>  
> Has anyone else run into this problem?  Any way to make 
> contribute stop
> doing it?  I could, of course, manually edit the links myself in
> Dreamweaver or a multitude of other programs, but I'd rather 
> not have to
> be called on to go mess with a page anytime someone wants to insert a
> link to a database.
>  
> Thanks for your help,
> -Kyle
>  
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> Washington and Lee University Library
> Phone: 540-458-8653
> Email: felkerk at wlu.edu 
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