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Can’t speak to the NYT stuff, but as for DIY proxying (as an alternative to EZproxy), a starting point might be: https:[log in to unmask]

Besides price, here are some of the reasons why you might want to: https:[log in to unmask]

Myself, as a dev, I’d want to investigate a solution based around something caching and fast like Varnish, but there’s nothing pre-made out there like EZproxy right now, so it’s what everybody uses.
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On January 15, 2015 at 4:39:39 PM, Brett Bonfield ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

We've noticed that people almost never read the New York Times in print  
here at the Collingswood (NJ) Public Library, an independent,  
single-branch, municipal public library serving 18,000 people. But we  
believe they'll be very interested in reading the NYT online.  

Online access costs about the same for us as print. We get unlimited onsite  
access based on IP authentication, which is great: we have static IPs  
associated with WiFi access, public workstations, and staff computers.  

We also get 10-20 passes (based on price), good for unlimited offsite  
access, that expire every 24 hours. But for offsite access we need to  
provide IP authentication.  

Typically, that means EZProxy. I'm pretty sure we can't fit EZProxy into  
our budget. But we need some way to make sure NYT knows that traffic to  
https://myaccount.nytimes.com/grouppass/access is coming from or through  
us. After we provide NYT with some form of IP authentication, our  
cardholders would then sign in with an email address and password and  
receive their 24-hour access.  

All of our online access to other databases and services is through card  
numbers: we provide a range, and the service authenticates against that  
range, typically authorizing access via SIP as well. NYT isn't currently  
configured for that type of authentication.  

We need to keep the solution inexpensive. Something like a $5/month Droplet  
and simple to install and maintain open source software could work. Or an  
inexpensive hosted VPN that offers static IPs and can somehow be configured  
to accept our card number range for authentication? Or...?  

Thanks,  

Brett