Forum Discussion

manvan49's avatar
manvan49
New Contributor
2 months ago

Handling proxy URLs (from university library)

Hi all,

I am working at a university where the university library provides access to certain websites through a special proxy service. This is a common thing for universities to do, so I was a bit surprised to not see this mentioned in the support forum so far?

The issue is that I often access a journal page (where i need to log in) through both the normal URL and through the special proxy URL:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-molecular-biology

https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxy-UNI.edu/journal/journal-of-molecular-biology

(where UNI = some ID for my university library)

Is there a way to have 1password be a bit smart about this and recognize these URLs so that I dont have to add the proxy variant to each Login entry? (NB doing the latter also means that I am offered a huge list of login options whenever accessing a proxy URL: because now the main URL is always the same, and 1P no longer distinguishes the different sites)

Anyway: any suggestions or workarounds?

 

feature request
macos

4 Replies

Sort By
  • manvan49's avatar
    manvan49
    New Contributor
    31 days ago

    Dear Dave,

    Can you tell me a little more about this? Do you mean that the "https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxy-UNI.edu" portion of the website address always stays the same and it's the "journal/journal-of-molecular-biology" portion that changes? 

    How it works is that our university library takes different journal sites and modifies the URLs according to a pattern:

    https://www-nature-com.proxy-ub.rug.nl/ncomms/   instead of www.nature.com/ncomms

    https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxy-ub.rug.nl/journal/journal-of-molecular-biology instead of http://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/etc

    Notably, all university sites/pages will end with RUG.NL such that 1password lumps all these logins together.

    Are your login credentials the same for all of these journals? Or do they differ based on the journal? 

    Exactly. I have a different login for the main university page, a different login for the different journals (often the same ID but a different password). 

    I had the vague memory that in older 1Password versions it would sort the logins on offer by URL similarity, such that you would still see the desired login near the top of the list (even if it is the same top-level domain). But this does not seem to work any more (if i even recall correctly from the past)

    Thanks!

      • manvan49's avatar
        manvan49
        New Contributor
        30 days ago

        Thanks. I will give that a try. I think I had assumed that this affects only the auto-fill, which is not useful for how I typically use 1P.

  • 1P_Dave's avatar
    1P_Dave
    Icon for Moderator rankModerator
    2 months ago

    Hello manvan49! 👋

    Thanks for reaching out! I don't believe that I've encountered this particular sort of use case before, that's very interesting. 1Password will only fill your login credentials on websites that match the website address that you've saved in 1Password. This is a deliberate behaviour to help protect you against phishing where a malicious website might try to pretend to be a legitimate website.

    Currently, the best would option be to add the proxy website address to your Login items. Then 1Password will offer to fill your login credentials when accessing the proxy website address. 

    Is there a way to have 1password be a bit smart about this and recognize these URLs so that I dont have to add the proxy variant to each Login entry? (NB doing the latter also means that I am offered a huge list of login options whenever accessing a proxy URL: because now the main URL is always the same, and 1P no longer distinguishes the different sites)

    Can you tell me a little more about this? Do you mean that the "https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxy-UNI.edu" portion of the website address always stays the same and it's the "journal/journal-of-molecular-biology" portion that changes? 

    Are your login credentials the same for all of these journals? Or do they differ based on the journal? 

    -Dave