Situation: You want to embed a link to library resources into Blackboard.
Problem: Students will access the links from off-campus and vendors limit access to W&M staff and students.
Solution: Pass the link through the proxy server by inserting a proxy prefix to the front of the URL. When the student authenticates with their W&M user id and password, it will appear to the vendor as if the student is coming from on-campus.
This is the proxy prefix that you place in front of a link to make the vendor think you are on campus:
https://proxy.wm.edu/login?url=
If you are linking to Jstor, the URL will look like this:
https://proxy.wm.edu/login?url=http://jstor.org