Difficult to say. BibDesk uses Soap, not the same interface any browser uses when searching in ISI WOS. I never have problems as you describe, since the checking of access permissions is done via IP#s. ETH Zurich's contract with Thomson Research is such, that a defined range of IP#s has access rights. Then the protocol seems not to matter. This allows us also to access the services via vpn from outside the campus.
What this all means for you, you might have to discuss with your network experts at your institution. Regards, Andreas ETH Zurich Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischlin Systems Ecology - Institute of Integrative Biology CHN E 21.1 Universitaetstrasse 16 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND [email protected] www.sysecol.ethz.ch +41 44 633-6090 phone +41 44 633-1136 fax +41 79 221-4657 mobile Make it as simple as possible, but distrust it! ________________________________________________________________________ On 24/Mar/2010, at 11:46 , George Nurser wrote: > Hi, > At my institution (University of Southampton, UK) we connect to WoS > automatically ("Institutional login" or "Shibboleth") without having > to explicitly authenticate. > Previously we connected from Athens, but no longer have an Athens > subscription. > > This Institutional login normally works fine performing WoS searches > direct from the browser (Safari 4.0.5 on mac OS 10.6.2) > > The problem I have is that if I attempt to perform a WoS search from > Bibdesk or even display a reference onto which I have dragged the WoS > link, *before* connecting to WoS via Safari, somehow Bibdesk attempts > to connect to WoS using Athens. Since we no longer have an Athens > subscription, this fails. Moreover, it sets a Safari cookie that means > that any future use of WOS, even direct from Safari, tries to use > Athens authentication, and hence fails. > > The workaround is: > 1. If I connect to WoS via Safari *before* using Bibdesk there's no problem. > > 2. The cookies that need to be deleted can be found and deleted as follows: > Safari-> Preferences->Security->show cookies > --insert " knowledge " into the search box > --select the Athens & Shibboleth cookies > --click on "Remove" > > Is this a bug, or have I just missed some way of setting preferences? > > George Nurser > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
