What about using some of the open source WSO2 products to mimic the same functionality as EZProxy? This sounds like a task that Enterprise Service Bus combined (ESB) with Identity Server (IS) could do. Most of their products are some version of an Apache project or other wrapped up in a common user interface.

http://wso2.com/products/

They're free, so the price is right.


Rick

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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

What about CAS, it has some proxy component...I think.

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> On Jan 28, 2014, at 10:11 PM, "tmccanna" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Ditto to Andreas.
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> <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Andreas 
> Orphanides <[log in to unmask]> </div><div>Date:01/28/2014  9:29 PM  
> (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: [log in to unmask] 
> </div><div>Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ? </div><div> </div>That's simple for the techs, but VPNs can be a royal pain in the keester if you're an end-user, for a variety of reasons. It should be incumbent on us as information specialists to unburden the user to the extent possible.
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> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Aaron Addison <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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>> Some use Squid, its not hard to set up.  But most vendors publish 
>> rules with ezproxy in mind.
>>
>> The other fairly simple solution is to run a VPN for access, and 
>> require people to use that.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, January 28, 2014, stuart yeates <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
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>>> We've just received notification of forth-coming changes to EZProxy,
>> which
>>> will require us to pay an arm and a leg for future versions to 
>>> install locally and/or host with OCLC AU with a ~ 10,000km round trip.
>>>
>>> What are the alternatives?
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> stuart
>>> --
>>> Stuart Yeates
>>> Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/
>>