[WEB4LIB] Web proxy alternative option and question

[Stephen Treger]

At 09:52 AM 3/30/00 -0800, Dale Poulter wrote:
>Good morning,
>
>         We recently read an article in Dr. Dobbs Journal ( Feb 2000
>pp86-96, the code is available at
>http://www.ddj.com/ftp/2000/2000_02/) about a free software package,
>webrelay, developed by Peter Zhang.  According to the article this
>package will allow libraries to provide easy access to online
>articles to distance students without using a proxy server.  The
>package sounds great, but it was written in c (not my strong point)
>for AIX.
>
>         Has anyone attempted to port this package to Solaris?  Thanks.

I recommend you look at EzProxy from UsefulUtilities.
A custom compile for Solaris is available, or run the pre-compiled binaries 
for Windows or Linux. Don't let words proxy in its name fool you.

This package met our requirements of not requiring any client side changes 
to the browser. Any browser that accepts cookies (for the session) works. 
It dynamically rewrites the URLS of requested sites that are in a 
configuration file.

We are authenticating directly off our III patron database, which meets our 
license agreements and allows for "distance learning".





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