Many thanks for this Christiaan. Much appreciated!

Kind regards, 

Peter


On 11 Apr 2016, at 17:57 pm, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I fixed this particular problem. Apparently WebKit did not tell us about the 
> last redirect in a string of redirects. So the URL in the address bar was not 
> the one that was loaded, and when you then leave the address bar, that 
> previous URL is loaded into the web view, leading to the error page. In 
> tomorrow’s nightly we will update the URL in the address bar at the end of 
> every load.
> 
> Christiaan
> 
>> On Apr 11, 2016, at 17:24, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> It seems to have to do with the redirect. The link you mentioned redirected 
>> to the POST URL on BibDesk. On some other browsers I get 
>> <https://login.dcu.ie/idp/Authn/UserPassword>, which does seem to work in 
>> BibDesk. But I also get the wrong POST site in other browsers when it does 
>> not directly redirect and I click the little redirect button I get there. 
>> But I don’t know why it would not redirect all the way, as we’re not 
>> involved in that, that’s all WebKit, we don’t influence that.
>> 
>> Christiaan
>> 
>>> On Apr 11, 2016, at 14:33, Novitzky Peter <pnovit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Well, all works well in Safari and all the other web browsers, so either it 
>>> is a webkit issue what Bibdesk is using, or Bibdesk itself. 
>>> 
>>> P
>>> 
>>> Sent from phone.
>>> 
>>> On 11 Apr 2016 1:30 pm, "Christiaan Hofman" <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> > On Apr 11, 2016, at 14:17, Novitzky Peter <pnovit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi Christiaan,
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for getting back to me.
>>> >
>>> > Regarding the PDF, just as there is a button called "Import", for 
>>> > importing the Bibtex reference, there might be a "PDF" button for 
>>> > importing the PDF from the scientific articles' database. I am talking 
>>> > about big databases (Scirus, Elsevier, SpringerLink, etc.) where we 
>>> > usually search for articles, not Google Scholar, where you can get the 
>>> > rubbish. With the Autofile feature it can be a very powerful combination 
>>> > not only to get the reference, but also the PDF itself from the same 
>>> > frontend. I know there are Applescripts to do this, but they are not 
>>> > really convenient to use.
>>> >
>>> 
>>> You can also directly download remote links from the linked files pane on 
>>> the right or in the item editor, if the URL is returned form the passed 
>>> content. Of course, if it’s not there, we would not know what to download 
>>> anyway.
>>> 
>>> > Regarding the Keychain Access and the Web Group issue, I put into the 
>>> > address bar the address of the login page. It loads the webpage, asking 
>>> > for my login credentials. I click to the login field, type my login name, 
>>> > and when I hit the Tab button, or click with the mouse to the password 
>>> > field, it receives this step as a "Submit" button, and leads me to the 
>>> > "Failed to login" page. The issue is that the single click on any field 
>>> > on the Web Group is considered as an enter/submit.
>>> >
>>> > If I am really-really quick, I can submit my password too. But this is 
>>> > not the correct way how things should function, right?
>>> >
>>> > Kind regards,
>>> >
>>> > Peter
>>> >
>>> 
>>> That sounds more like a problem of the login page. We just display that 
>>> page in a pretty standard web view, and let that web kit handle the 
>>> (re)loading of the webpage as needed. We don’t reload or submit any web 
>>> page, unless you ask for it.
>>> 
>>> Christiaan
>>> 
>>> >
>>> > On 11 Apr 2016, at 13:10 pm, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >>> On Apr 11, 2016, at 13:59, Novitzky Peter <pnovit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Hi All,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I was wondering whether the following 2 features may be considered to 
>>> >>> be implemented into Bibdesk.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 1) I would love to use Bibdesk to import citations and download the 
>>> >>> PDFs together with them. However, our library is providing a general 
>>> >>> login page where I have to login first to have access through the 
>>> >>> university proxy servers. It is https://login.dcu.idm.oclc.org/menu in 
>>> >>> case you want to check.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> My problem is that whenever I try to log in through the Web Group to 
>>> >>> this page, any click to the login and password fields are considered as 
>>> >>> hitting the "Enter" or hitting on a "Submit" button, making it almost 
>>> >>> impossible to fill in the password after filling the login credential.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Obviously, it will be desirable to be "logged in" properly with the 
>>> >>> related cookie from the university library to be able to download the 
>>> >>> PDFs.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 2) One of the ways how to "avoid" this login-hassle would be if Bibdesk 
>>> >>> would cooperate with the actual Keychain Access, where the login 
>>> >>> details for this specific page are stored. Bibdesk already cooperates 
>>> >>> partially with Keychain Access, when one wants to share her library on 
>>> >>> the local network. Would it be possible that the Web Groups will be 
>>> >>> able to access the data from Keychain Access?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Please feel free to comment.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Kind regards,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Peter
>>> >>
>>> >> A problem is I don’t know how to make this should work in practice. I 
>>> >> don’t think it is a good idea to just download every linked PDF 
>>> >> automatically, because quite often you just are searching, and not 
>>> >> necessarily importing any items you view. So that would be very 
>>> >> inefficient, and leave a lot of junk around.
>>> >>
>>> >> As for the login credentials, I don;t have a good view of what goes 
>>> >> wrong and how it could be fixed. What is really going wrong when 
>>> >> submitting a field is interpreted as an enter? I mean, submitting a 
>>> >> field *is* enter. And AFAIK our web view is just a web view, and it 
>>> >> supports cookies.
>>> >>
>>> >> Perhaps web groups could cooperate with the key chain, but I don;t se 
>>> >> when and how that should happen.
>>> >>
>>> >> Christiaan
>>> 
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