Good idea; this is probably the easiest solution... what sort of market
dominance does EZProxy have?  I know it's extremely high, but what other
obvious strings could we look for?

Also, is there a precedent for passthrough proxies in other sectors
other than libraries?  If so, is EZProxy dominant there as well?

Thanks,
-Ross.

Binkley, Peter wrote:

>Interesting idea - you could have a bookmarklet look for the typical
>ezproxy pattern "/login?url=" to identify ezproxied urls and rewrite
>them ...
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>Peter
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>Behalf Of Ross Singer
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 09:13 AM
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] resolver list + Proxy
>>
>>I realize that this message is now "so '04", but something
>>similar to this with regards to proxy servers would also be
>>incredibly useful.
>>
>>For instance, there's no reason that I shouldn't be able to
>>access the resources on:
>>http://library.caltech.edu/collections/engineering/computer.htm
>>or
>>http://www.tamu.edu/pvamu/library/dblist.html
>>if I'm there and already have access to the resource.
>>
>>It'd be simple enough to write a bookmarklet or extension or
>>something that changes:
>>http://pv-ezproxy.tamu.edu:2048/login?url=http://muse.jhu.edu/
>>plweb-cgi/fastweb?searchform+muse
>>to:
>>http://www.library.gatech.edu:2048/login?url=http://muse.jhu.e
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>du/plweb-cgi/fastweb?searchform+muse
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>>Possibly making other instutions' research and subject guides
>>more useful to other organizations.
>>
>>The key is knowing that
>>http://pv-ezproxy.tamu.edu:2048/login? is a proxy server...
>>
>>What do you think?
>>
>>-Ross.
>>
>>Daniel Chudnov wrote:
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>>>For some stuff I'd like to try, and maybe for browser extension
>>>authors, among others, it would be helpful to have at least
>>>
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>>one public
>>
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>>>list of some public openurl resolvers.  If you like, if you might
>>>kindly add your resolver to the just-started list here:
>>>
>>>  http://curtis.med.yale.edu/unalog-trac/wiki/OpenurlResolverTable
>>>
>>>...it would be very helpful.
>>>
>>>Or, if there's already a list like this elsewhere, please
>>>
>>>
>>let me know.
>>
>>
>>>Thanks, -Dan
>>>
>>>
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