[Web4lib] Contribute and EZproxy

[Turner,Kathleen]

Oh, yeah! 

BIG PITA!  We've been dealing with that for quite awhile -- my colleague
has been in touch with Contribute people numerous times with no help.

Workaround we've found is to put those urls in using the "HREF" box
towards the bottom of the "Insert Link" window, rather than the "Web
Address (URL)" box.  That seems to keep them intact.

I frequently find, though, that when pages have been edited urls can
"convert" themselves by some mysterious means, so I've learned to check
all proxied links whenever a page is touched by one of our editors.

We're pretty well satisfied otherwise with Contribute, but this is a big
enough problem for us to make us think about other options.

Kathleen


Kathleen H. Turner
Web/Education Librarian
W.W. Hagerty Library
33rd and Market Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875

Tel: 215.895.6783
Fax: 215.895.2070
khturner at drexel.edu


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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Felker
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:42 AM
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.sciencedirect.co
m/science

 
And contribute then changes it to this:
 
https://ezproxy.wlu.edu:2443/login?url=http%3A//www.sciencedirect.com/sc
ience

 
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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Kyle Felker
Technology Coordinator
Washington and Lee University Library
Phone: 540-458-8653
Email: felkerk at wlu.edu
Chat: geeklibrary (aol) techbookgeek (yahoo)
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