On Friday, July 20, 2007, at 10:16AM, "James Howison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think the WoS searching is great, but for me it only works when I'm >'on-campus' since ISI's web-services do IP based authentication. >Unfortunately my universities VPN won't route off-campus traffic for >me, so that doesn't work. Is there a way to handle this that I'm >missing?
Switch universities? I haven't tried using it over the lab's VPN, but that sounds really lame. >If not, then I think that on release there will be a lot of 'can I >use it through my proxy' requests, since most schools give access to >'on-campus' resources through a proxy. I've tried messing around >with that but the way ours is configured I'd have to get the library >to add the URL for the service (hassle++), then there would have to >be some UI for logging in. > >Another option, perhaps easier to configure, is to let BibDesk use a >SOCKS5 proxy for WoS (or all) access. Those without access via an >actual on-campus SOCKS5 proxy, but have an ssh server on campus can >use the ssh -ND option to simulate one. Well, I can't even ssh into my systems at work, so I have no hope of using or testing such a proxy. I also have a correspondingly low desire of learning what you are talking about ;). We'll need a motivated user or developer to figure this out, and make it work with Apple's web services code, or it won't happen. Sorry. -- Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
