On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 at 01:22PM -0800, Justin C. Walker wrote: > I didn't try this time (it's a pain to hamstring the proxy setup), but > in the past, I've had no joy trying to get to content on SpringerLink > w/o some institution's subscription backing me up (I guess they use > reverse DNS lookup to verify your network address is within a paying > institution's "pale").
I hope no one from Springer is reading this, but if you have a shell account inside a university with a SpringerLink subscription (*cough* sage.math *cough cough*), just do ssh -D 9999 -N machine.inside.uni.edu and then in Firefox's preferences, go Advanced -> Network -> Connection and put 127.0.0.1 as your SOCKS host, with port 9999. (Other browsers work similarly, I'm sure.) I find that very simple and easy, and I use it from home when I want to access journals and such. There's even probably a Firefox add-on that will switch those things and run ssh for you. Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake -------
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