On Jul 20, 2007, at 1:32 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> 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.

It is. I'll switch universities just as soon as I finish this  
dissertation ;)

>> 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.

Understood.  I'll see what I can do.

--J

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