How does the proxy server provide access to other Web sites?
The library must sign a license agreement for some of the electronic resources it subscribes to, such as the database Anthropological Literature or the electronic journal American Jewish History. These license agreements include a clause that requires us to limit access to these resources to current students, faculty and staff. The proxy server gives us the ability to authenticate, or verify, a user as a current student, faculty, or staff. Access to these types of resources are usually controlled by IP address. All computers on the UO campus share a common IP address, 128.223.x.x. The x’s are more specific addresses on the Internet, getting to a specific computer rather than a network address for a building. .uoregon.edu is equivalent to 128.223.x.x. After you ID yourself, the proxy server sends your request to the remote site showing the address of the proxy server itself, which has a UO IP address. The database or electronic journal sees the UO IP address, processes your request for
