Does our Hosted EZproxy prefix start with HTTP or HTTPS?
Applies to
- EZproxy
Answer
Both HTTP and HTTPS are valid URLs for EZproxy. EZproxy intelligently switches between HTTP and HTTPS depending on the options selected in your config.txt.
If Option ForceHTTPSLogin is selected all authentication will use an HTTPS URL. As of version 7.0, this is default behavior.
The final URL will be determined by the URL after the URL= in the link.
Assuming Option ForceHTTPSLogin is in use the following example can be used.
When using an HTTPS URL as a destination:
https://ezproxy.institution.edu/login?url=https://vendor.domain.com will result in https://login.ezproxy.institution.edu for authentication then a final URL of https://vendor-domain-com.ezproxy.institution.edu
Alternately, if using an HTTP URL as a destination:
https://ezproxy.institution.edu/login?url=http://vendor.domain.com will result in https://login.ezproxy.institution.edu for authentication then a final URL of http://vendor.domain.com.ezproxy.institution.edu