{"id":17296,"date":"2025-07-18T09:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/?p=17296"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T13:28:03","slug":"zotero-connector-proxy-issues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/zotero-connector-proxy-issues-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Zotero Connector Proxy Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have been having issues with PubMed, such as being unable to log into My NCBI through your Pitt account or to email articles to yourself or others, and<\/strong>\u00a0you have the Zotero Connector plugin installed in your browser, then we may have the solution to your problem!<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Zotero Connector<\/a> allows Zotero users to save references to Zotero directly from a web browser. Additionally, it can detect when you access a website through a proxy. (A proxy is how you can access Pitt library resources when you are not on Pitt\u2019s network, and Pitt\u2019s proxy is pitt.idm.oclc.org.) When you have the Zotero Connector installed in your browser, Zotero will prompt you to automatically redirect future requests to certain websites (such as nature.com, pictured below) through that proxy. However, you should not<\/strong>\u00a0allow Zotero to do this, as it can cause problems on some websites, including PubMed.<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot
Example of a prompt by Zotero to redirect requests to certain websites through a proxy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You should never<\/strong> click \u201cAccept\u201d when you see this message. Instead, you can either ignore it when it appears, or you can click on \u201cProxy Settings\u201d where you can instruct the Zotero Connector to never automatically redirect websites through a proxy. Once you have opened \u201cProxy Settings,\u201d simply uncheck the box next to \u201cEnable proxy redirection\u201d (see image below). Once you have unchecked this box, you should no longer see messages from Zotero about redirecting websites through a proxy.<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot
Uncheck “Enable proxy redirection” in Zotero proxy settings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, when you access PubMed and other websites, the Zotero Connector will no longer automatically add the proxy to the website URL.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in learning more about Zotero, you can view available\u00a0Zotero learning opportunities<\/a>\u00a0in Learn@HSLS, or you can read more about\u00a0getting started with a citation manager in our LibGuides<\/a>.<\/p>\n

~Rachel Suppok<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have been having issues with PubMed, such as being unable to log into My NCBI through your Pitt account or to email articles to yourself or others, and\u00a0you have the Zotero Connector plugin installed in your browser, then we may have the solution to your problem! The\u00a0Zotero Connector allows Zotero users to save […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"issue-archives","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[-1],"class_list":["post-17296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-august-2025","avhec_catgroup-issue-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17336,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296\/revisions\/17336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}