Access Problem Solving (digprob)
Proxy Server: Getting a Resource Configured for the Proxy Server for Off Campus Use
Please note that the public interface to Vera switched on August 20, 2008 from using our FileMaker Pro database as its back end to using SFX as its back end. As a result, the information below is now incomplete.
The procedures below will work to get the URL in Staff Vera to work. However, the proxy server is now talking to SFX, not Staff Vera, to build the URLs used in the public interface.
See Proxy Primer for more information and background, as necessary.
- DigAcq staff determines that a resource can be made available off campus via the proxy server (decision is based on information in license or terms).
- DigAcq staff requests proxy server setup by sending email to fix-lib, including the following information
- Vera ID
- Title
- full URL (everything in URLNative field)
- Tech Ops Staff adds the URL to a list in the proxy server.
- Tech Ops Staff goes into Staff Vera and sets the SystemOK field to Yes in the appropriate Vera record(s).
How to test to see if the URL is already in the list.
- Put the proxy string plus the URLNative into the address bar of your web browser (e.g., http://libproxy.mit.edu/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/)
- If you get to the site, the base URL is in the list, and you can set the System OK field to Yes without emailing fix-lib.
- If you get an error page that says "Sorry, not available," it's not in the list, and you need to send email to fix-lib so it can be added.