Sonny Software

I can login to my university's library webpage (beckerproxy.wustl.edu), supply my username:password, and from there search Pubmed (via a web browser) with access to all PDFs through our subscriptions.

I can also login to our VPN, and then fire up Bookends to search pubmed and download all PDFs.

HOWEVER, I would like to avoid the VPN. It seems like there should be a way for Bookends to search Pubmed via my university's proxy and get access to PDFs without having to be connected to the VPN.

IF this is possible, where do I enter the proxy server info? Under System Prefs>Network>Proxies, you can set up proxy info for FTP, http, https, etc and it asks for a username:password.... is this where i would put my info (beckerproxy.wustl.edu?????), and if so, exactly how? I don't want to ALWAYS got through the proxy, just when using Bookends... Any step-by-steps would be very helpful at this point... maybe it's just not possible?

Bookends 10.1.3 will use the proxy info it finds in System Preferences automatically. So make sure the proxy setup there is correct. The username/password is there if you are going through an authenticating proxy server.

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon wrote:Bookends 10.1.3 will use the proxy info it finds in System Preferences automatically. So make sure the proxy setup there is correct. The username/password is there if you are going through an authenticating proxy server.

Jon
Sonny Software

yeah, i guess that's my question - how do i set it up "correctly" in the System Prefs page? (which protocol, check "exclude simple hostnames" etc?)

also, do i put the username/password in bookends, system prefs, or both?

finally, how would i set it up so that all my web traffic doesn't go through the proxy all the time (only when using bookends?)

You'll have to ask your IT people how to configure your computer for their server.

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon wrote:You'll have to ask your IT people how to configure your computer for their server.

they're not too helpful - has anyone on this forum successfully used a university library (that requires authentication) as a proxy similarly to how I described? if so, exactly how did you do it?