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manvan49
6 months agoNew Contributor
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 s...
1P_Dave
Moderator
6 months agoHello 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