Proxy rewrite and XP

[Mary Peterson <mary.peterson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am having an on-campus issue with Windows XP and proxy rewrite (and I 
assume off campus, although I haven't tested XP off campus yet).   I set up 
access so that our on campus users do not have to validate to use the 
electronic resources. This worked great from my desk, and from the library 
terminals/computer lab. Then I tried it from my computer (running Windows 
98) using the various IP addresses we have on campus and that worked great. 
Then I went over to our large computer lab on campus just to check (I had 
such high hopes) and of course, the new link I created that worked so well 
in the library didn't.   All I got was the standard "The page can not be 
displayed".

I was puzzled, then I remembered that the lab used Windows XP.  I came back 
to the library, and on our one XP machine in the library my newly created 
links did not work either. Is there something in XP that is causing it not 
to read the new web address correctly?

Here is an example of Britannica:

http://0-search.eb.com.dunnlib.simpson.edu/

Any tips or hints on what could be would be nice.


Thanks,

Mary E. Peterson
Instruction Librarian
Dunn Library, Simpson College
Indianola, Iowa  50125
(515) 961-1520
(515) 961-1363 (fax)