<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi, all, further update for anyone experiencing a similar problem with Proquest EbookCentral with Single Sign On.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I have both Proquest and Ezproxy support looking at this from both sides.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Two things I've learned so far:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">1. The EbookCentral stanza in ezproxy config absolutely must come above any A, E, or I directives, which is unfortunate for those of us who are trying to keep a consistent layout to our configs with the stanzas in alpha order below the rest of the config settings.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">2. It is apparently possible for Proquest to implement SSO incompletely so that it's partly SSO and partly patron login, which makes for a big mess that is only noticed if multiple patrons happen to notice they're getting the same hashed-username as other patrons. The overwhelming majority of patrons would likely never notice this because they aren't using any of the customization or download features that would make it apparent.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> <a href="http://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-5663860-1&cid=109230&t=event&ec=email&ea=open&el=mbelvadi%40upei.ca&cs=newsletter&cm=email&cn=PLP" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </a> <span style="font-size:12.8px">902-566-0581</span></div><div>my <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mbelvadi%40upei.ca&ctz=America/Halifax&mode=week" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">public calendar</a></div><div><a href="https://mbelvadi.youcanbook.me/" target="_blank">Make an appointment</a></div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 5:26 PM, Fox, Linda J. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:FoxLJ@umkc.edu" target="_blank">FoxLJ@umkc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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proxied or unproxied URLs. The behavior is the same. Once you are automatically authenticated by EZproxy, you end up using that same hashed identity.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I did speak with the person who manages our proxy server. He said that the only way to “fix” the problem and still use EZproxy is to require on campus users
to log in just like remote users—for everything, not just Ebook Central. That is something that we are not prepared to do at this time. (He did mention one alternative: to set up a second proxy server just for Ebook Central. The cost in dollars and in staff
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<b>To:</b> Fox, Linda J. <<a href="mailto:FoxLJ@umkc.edu" target="_blank">FoxLJ@umkc.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] Proquest EbookCentral, single signon, ezproxy - question about weird problem<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I'm guessing you are using the A directive in ezproxy to keep on-campus users proxied but without prompting?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We had some of that on, but turned it off for our Proquest EbookCentral stanza as part of testing this, and it didn't seem to have any effect.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Also we see the problem when we carefully text with completely unproxied URLs, so the proxy server stanza is playing no role at all, at least not in the first clicks - we have no idea what Proquest
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 3:43 PM, Fox, Linda J. <<a href="mailto:FoxLJ@umkc.edu" target="_blank">FoxLJ@umkc.edu</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">We’re seeing a problem that sounds remarkably similar to what you describe. We’ve harrowed it down
to a specific circumstance. Even though we don’t have to proxy the links to Ebook Central, we choose to do so for the sake of consistency. We can reliably trigger this behavior if we are logged into our campus network. We have configured EZproxy not to
prompt for credentials when users are on the campus network because they have already authenticated at that point. So if I follow a proxied link to another database, say Academic Search Complete, I’m automatically “logged in” to the proxy server. If I then
follow a link to Ebook Central, the proxy server “knows” that I’ve already authenticated, and doesn’t prompt me for my username and password. It instead passes along some sort of generic username—and like you it always seems to be the same one. If I actually
log out of the proxy server and then link to the same ebook, I am prompted to log in, and the username is different.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">We have been working with ProQuest on this for months, with no real progress. I was just thinking
about touching base with our EZproxy expert to where the ticket is. If I learn anything more, I’ll pass it along.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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Senior Library Information Specialist<br>
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Miller Nichols Library <a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=Room+304+%0D%0A800+E+51&entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank">
Room 304</a><br>
<a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=800+E+51&entry=gmail&source=g">800 E 51</a><sup>st</sup> Street<br>
Kansas City, MO 64110</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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fax: (816) </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">235-5531</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.<wbr>org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Melissa Belvadi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 28, 2018 10:18 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] Proquest EbookCentral, single signon, ezproxy - question about weird problem</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This would only apply if you have Proquest Ebook Central configured to use their Single SignOn service. That enables users on campus
to get from our ezproxy server (without being bothered to login) a hashed identity code so they can use all of the interface features of someone with an account in the platform, without actually making one and revealing their identity.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What Proquest apparently does is talk to our proxy server, even when the link is not proxied and the user is on campus, to get that
hashed identity code. The user is not prompted for a username/password in this, so I'm not sure how ezproxy could even be doing this.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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of the allocation of pages that could be downloaded, and another staff member on a different computer accessed the same book, they saw the allocation already used up. They brought it to me, where I verified on my own computer in three different web browsers
the same problem. You can see the problem by looking in settings-profile and note the same hashed-garbage username in all of the affected sessions throughout all those different computers and browsers.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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