Add proxy URL for Brazil's CAPES Periódicos about ezproxy-db HOT 6 CLOSED

Thanks!

The auto-redirect works on many journals, but sometimes it fails badly. For instance, if we try to access prb.aps.org to submit a paper, it tries to redirect the login page and breaks it. Similarly, it breaks the login on web-of-science. We can put web-of-science on a blacklist, but for prb.aps.org the same domain is used for the system and for the papers.

One problem we had is that we couldn't find a way identify a fail redirect and move back automatically. Also, sometimes a bad redirect cannot be reversed with the browser "go back" button.

So... be careful with auto-redirect...

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I made a blog post on linkedin about your extension:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tips-use-capes-peri%2525C3%2525B3dicos-gerson-j-ferreira-pvcgf/

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I've developed, with @devmessias, a Chrome/Firefox extension to do this redirect here in Brazil (we need it even inside the university network). You can check here:

• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirecionamento-capes-pe/lpfcdddcpijdfghkimmcpkmidafnljbo
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redir-capes-periodicos/
• https://openuserjs.org/scripts/gersonjferreira/Redirecionamento_CAPES-Peri%C3%B3dicos
• https://subgnano.gitlab.io/projects.html

But your extension does pretty much the same thing. We have tried to implement an auto-redirect feature that fails sometimes. It has a list of websites that are accessible via the proxy, and you and/remove to white/black lists.

Since this automatic feature fails and we don't have time to maintain it, I will recommend people to start using your extension instead. I'll do the announcements once this new URL is added to the list.

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The site has been updated. Thanks @gersonjferreira!

I also got a similar feature request to support auto-redirect, in tom5760/chrome-ezproxy#9, but similarly haven't had much time lately to try to implement it. I think it will be tricky without expanding the permissions a lot.

Anyway, thanks for the recommendation! Hopefully will be able to do some sort of auto-redirect soon...

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So... be careful with auto-redirect...

Ah! I hadn't even thought of those kinds of cases. Yeah, might be even more complicated than I thought!

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Yes, it's tricky!

Here in Brazil, CAPES decided to implement EZProxy without a warning. So, out of nowhere we couldn't download papers anymore. We still have to use the proxy even inside the university! I've released a first version my extension a couple of days after this, and the number of users exploded quickly!

A couple of weeks later I actually got a call from web-of-science, because the number of users complaining that their web page was broken was huge! So I had to blacklist web-of-science from the auto-redirect.

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