Does our Hosted EZproxy prefix start with HTTP or HTTPS
Applies to
- EZproxy All Versions
Resolution
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
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 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