[Eril-l] [External] Re: Taylor & Francis blocking IP addresses due to excessive use

Tue Jan 24 07:05:33 PST 2023

Zotero's documentation about this hasn't changed -- the troubleshooting page (https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/proxy_troubleshooting) dates from 2017 and the preferences page (https://www.zotero.org/support/connector_preferences) was updated in October 2022 without changing anything related to proxies.  But that doesn't mean something didn't change accidentally.

There has been a recent flurry of forum messages about the issue.  If you have a user with the issue, it'd be great if you could get them to follow the instructions at https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/proxy_troubleshooting to report it to the developers.  If they don't have time for that and just need to get their own system working again, have them check out the suggested steps at https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/426725.

Lynda.

From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> On Behalf Of Linette Koren
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I had a researcher write last week that he experienced an excessive downloading block for AIP Publishing journals.  He says before he got the block message he did get a warning on the top of his browser that Zotero was trying to use EZProxy…which apparently resulted in being caught in a loop that caused what looked like suspicious activity to AIP.  He disabled a specific function in Zotero.

Did Zotero make some changes recently that is causing this behavior with various publishers and perhaps it is hitting T&F particularly hard?  We don’t subscribe to many T&F journals to see this happening here.

All these emails made me re-read and question the AIP/Zotero-related block from last week.   We rarely get excessive downloading emails but when we do they are almost always from IEEE and ACM.

Looking forward to meeting those of you attending ER&L.

Regards,
Linette

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From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> On Behalf Of Dave Fowler
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Although I have not heard of any issues with Zotero and T&F, we did have an issue last year with the Zotero config messing with our access to Swank films.

Dave

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We experienced this last week as well at Acadia in Eastern Canada, not sure why.

Jen

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Hello,

Same here. Only two cases so far, and we don’t know the browser, but they both seemed connected to Zotero and a malformed proxy setting. Glad to hear we aren’t alone if not glad to hear its happening.

Cheers,

Lisa

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Hello Kenyon -

Yes, we've experienced the same thing. We've had a number of reports of on-campus IP addresses being blocked. We're still trying to figure out what the cause was/is.

I'm happy to know we're not alone!

Sara K Hills

Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian

Interim Head of Acquisitions and Resource Management

American University, Washington DC 20016

202-885-3203

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Subject: [Eril-l] Taylor & Francis blocking IP addresses due to excessive use

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Hello,

We received a few reports last week from Taylor & Francis that they had temporarily blocked one of our IP addresses because of excessive connection to Taylor & Francis Online (tandfonline.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/tandfonline.com__;!!IaT_gp1N!wSm7aYZLkckv-8S1C-SYwjntc5qMzp8ODu3z8wutJm7cSZGTO_AYW6G5VUdGKWibs7S8xyLzjwiA4eHfEuc$>). The activity occurs over a period of one or two minutes and involves dozens of connections to only 1 or 2 pages. The block seems to occur after 100 total connection attempts.

Our IT group investigated and suggested the activity could be due to a buggy browser. We've contacted a few users and they mentioned they were using Chrome and Zotero.

Has anyone else experienced similar issues with Taylor & Francis Online or with Chrome or Zotero? If yes, do you have any suggestions on what we can do or should investigate?

Thank you,

Kenyon Stuart

Electronic Resource Management Unit

320 Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1190 USA

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