neverproxy directive

Hi all,

As a fairly new EZproxy admin, I am going through the collection of configuration files to make sense of the way they've evolved over the years. I hope to clean them up over the December break, before classes started again in January.

One puzzling item (of many) is a list of more than 550 urls that are specified with the "neverproxy" directive. The list seems somewhat arbitrary and random, at least to a novice.

Does anyone else have a list of sites to not proxy? Can you explain why you would add a URL to this list? Although I didn't check all of them, so far I can't find one is configured to be proxied. It seems that if the URL is not listed as a proxied site, there would be no reason to add it to this list.

Maybe this directive was necessary in an older version of EZproxy? Its purpose eludes me.

I am also asking among the staff here at the USC Libraries to see if there is institutional memory that can explain it, but I suspect that this community may be able to provide some insight. I'd be grateful for any replies.

Thanks,
Gary
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Gary Thompson
USC Libraries
Integrated Library Systems Team
3434 South Grand Ave, CAL-208
Los Angeles, CA 90007

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