[Web4lib] Contribute and EZproxy

[Michael McEvoy]

You would probably be better served contacting the Useful Utilities people
directly. Certain configuration changes in EZ Proxy could solve this
problem for you. You can email your problems to info at UsefulUtilities.com.
I've found the Useful Utilities people to be some of the best tech support
in the universe.

On Wed, April 11, 2007 11:47 am, Turner,Kathleen wrote:
- > 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
- >
- >
- > -----Original Message-----
- > From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
- > [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
- >
- > **********************************************
- > 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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