| Port No | 26260 |
| Service Name | ezproxy |
| RFC Doc | 0 |
| Protocol | TCP |
| Description | EZproxy is an easy to setup and easy to maintain program for providing your users with remote access to web-based licensed databases. It is available for servers running Linux (x86 and x86_64), Solaris (SPARC), Windows NT 4.0 (Workstation and Server), Windows 2000 (all versions), Windows 2003, and Windows XP Professional. It operates as an intermediate server between your users and your licensed databases. Your users connect to EZproxy, then it connects on their behalf to your licensed databases to obtain web pages and send them back to your users. Since EZproxy runs on a machine on your network, your database vendor sees the requests as coming from an IP address on your network, so it permits access. EZproxy works by dynamically altering the URLs within the web pages provided by your database vendor. The server names within the URLs of these web pages are changed to reflect your EZproxy server instead, causing your users to return to the EZproxy server as they access links on these web pages. The result is a seamless access environment for your users without the need for automatic proxy configuration files. EZproxy only alters references to your database vendors' web pages, so if your database vendor provides additional links to other free web pages on the Internet, these are left as-is. In this manner, if your users elect to follow one of these links, the EZproxy server is automatically taken out of the communication loop. EZproxy has been successfully used with databases provided by Britannica, EBSCO, FirstSearch, Gale, Lexis-Nexis, Newsbank, Ovid, SilverPlatter, SIRS, Softline and UMI, along with many others. |
| Reference Link | More Information |
| Attack | No |
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