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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
