Simple Stanza CreationAndrew Senior

McGill University

Directives and Stanzas

Title (T)

URL (U)

Host (H)

HostJavascript (HJ)

Domain (D)

DomainJavascript (DJ)

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Directives and Stanzas

Title Acta horticulturae

URL http://www.actahort.org

Domain actahort.org

Starting point URL:

http://proxy.library.mcgill.ca/login?url=http://www.actahort.org

After processing, EZproxy rewrites URL:

http://www.actahort.org.proxy3.library.mcgill.ca

Adding a New Stanza

Title

URL

Domain

• Start with this combination

• BUT click on a few links within the site and look at URL behaviour

• In this example, only path ending changes

http://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/cjc/index.php/rcc

http://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/cjc/index.php/rcc/login

http://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/cjc/index.php/rcc/search

http://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/cjc/index.php/rcc/issue/archive

Title (T)

Title Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy/ Revue canadienne de counseling et de psychothérapie

URL

Domain

• Title information is for humans

• Can include extra info such as former titles or parallel titles if helpful

• Titles must be on one line!

• If adding an extra line with other information, must use pound/hashtag (#) symbol #Revue canadienne de counseling et de psychothérapie

• Title information will appear in Ezproxy menu page

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Target URLs (U)

Title Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy

URL http://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/cjc/index.php/rcc

Domain

• Target URLs typically the homepage or top-level URL of resource

• Must retain http:// or https://

• Pay attention to whether http or https

• See https://www.oclc.org/support/services/ezproxy/documentation/cfg/spu-and-cfg.en.html for detailed info!

Domain (D)

Title Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy

URL http://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca

Domain cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca

• Element which follows the http:// part of the URL up to top-level (.ca, .org, .com)

• Directive does not retain http:// or https://

• Be mindful of over-reducing a domain• Usually give www.somewebsite.com as somewebsite.com

• However, ucalgary.ca = entire University of Calgary website, proxying whole university probably not necessary for this resource which is self-contained

Domain (D)

Title Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy

URL http://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca

Domain cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca

• http://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/cjc/index.php/rcc/login

• http://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/cjc/index.php/rcc/search

• http://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/cjc/index.php/rcc/issue/archive

Chrome: http://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/cjc/index.php/rcc/issue/archive

FireFox: http://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/cjc/index.php/rcc/index

DomainJavascript (DJ)

• If the site uses JavaScript, you will need to make Domain into DJ

• For example, if the login button uses JavaScript to display a form to fill in

https://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/cjc/index.php/rcc/login

a DJ directive must be included to handle the JavaScript processing

Title Canadian Journal of Counselling

URL http://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca

DJ cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca

Host (H)

• Many journal databases make new hostnames for each journal title ratherthan add to the URL path

Progress in Human Geographyhttp://phg.sagepub.com/ (not http://sagepub.com/phg)

• Remember, EZproxy is looking for a match against a URL or Host directive

http://proxy.library.mcgill.ca/login?url=http://phg.sagepub.com/

Title Sage Publications

URL http://online.sagepub.com

DJ sagepub.com

No entry for phg.sagepub.com!

Title Sage Publications

URL http://online.sagepub.com

Host phg.sagepub.com

DJ sagepub.com

Host (H) and HostJavascript (HJ)

• If starting point URL in catalogue has https://http://proxy.library.mcgill.ca/login?url=https://phg.sagepub.com/

Title Sage Publications

URL http://online.sagepub.com

HJ https://phg.sagepub.com

DJ sagepub.com

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