proxy servers

[Richard L. Goerwitz III]

lydia wrote:

> > We have a number of web based periodical databases (IAC, SIRS, etc.)
> > to which we need to provide remote access for our students and
> > faculty.
>
> The short answer is that what you're talking about here is setting up
> a proxy server, and that it's a non-trivial task.

If there's a problem here, it's developing the documentation, support,
and administrative infrastructure.  A decent systems administrator could
get a proxy server set up on a virgin machine in an hour or two.  Tuning
it might take a week at most.  This is the trivial part.

> see
>
>   http://www.library.nwu.edu/help/proxy/
>   http://proxy.library.upenn.edu/

Add to this:

  http://www.lib.uci.edu/home/online/proxy.html
  http://www.library.wisc.edu/help/remote/remote_restrict.html

There are many others as well.

As I've discussed in an earlier posting, these proxy services all use
plain-text authentication, which is unacceptable for many institutions
(including mine).

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