[Web4lib] Contribute and EZproxy

[Binkley, Peter]

Have you tried "qurl=" instead of "url="? See
http://www.usefulutilities.com/support/changes.html and search for
"qurl". I've just tried your example against our ezproxy and it worked.
It would be a good idea to test it with urls contain escaped or
unescaped special characters in their query strings, to be sure you
don't get weird double-encoding or double-decoding behaviours.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Felker
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 9:42 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
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