[Web4lib] Mechanism for testing off-campus access from on-campus?

[Thomas Bennett]

I have found, accidentally, that you can use Opera 10.  If you turn on the 
turbo feature you will be using Opera's proxy server which will be seen as the 
the remote IP .  I found this while trying to trouble shoot why a user's 
computer would always go to UNC Chapel Hill proxy server each time the link 
involved ebscohost descirbe in the next paragraph.


Also, another I found by accident, if you have the Zotero addon in firefox then 
you should be able to set a proxy in Zotero preferences.  I found this on a 
machine where the user had used it in a workshop, I think related to medical 
databases, and evertime she clicked on a link that involved ebscohost she 
would be taken to UNC Chapel Hill proxy server.  Their proxy doesn't 
authenticate us here at UNC at Tweetsie ;-)


Thomas

 
On Thursday 13 August 2009 08:56:14 Jim Coble wrote:
> We currently use EZProxy to provide off-campus access to licensed
> electronic resources to Duke faculty, staff, and students.  Library staff
> on campus are not, however, able to test or troubleshoot EZProxy settings
> since they are, well, on campus and have a Duke IP address.  I'm interested
> to know if / how other libraries have addressed this issue.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Jim
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