Proxy for The Francis Crick Institute

The Francis Crick Institute uses a different proxy URL format to usual EZProxy format currently supported by Paperpile.

For example…
The URL https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-019-0128-5
Needs to be converted to https://remote.crick.ac.uk/https/www.nature.com/articles/s41577-019-0128-5

I can use the following javascript bookmarklet in chrome to redirect to the remote access portal. Is it possible for this to be implemented in Paperpile?

javascript:(function(){window.location.assign(location.protocol+'//'+'remote.crick.ac.uk/http/'+location.hostname+location.pathname)})();

The $@ notation used in Paperpile’s custom proxy connection settings will include the HTTP of the initial URLwhich will not work with the proxy prefix remote.crick.ac.uk/https/[URL]

Cheers!

A

Do you know what kind of proxy software that is?

That would help to do some more reading of the docs of this and then we could also set up a local version for testing since the way the URL needs to be converted, does not work out of the box.

Thanks for following up. I believe it is Global Protect from Palo Alto Networks: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/globalprotect.html