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Access Component
The access See component consists of a wayback installation under tomcat in Proxy Access Mode using a composite local CDX index (see wayback documentation for details. In addition, the installation includes the NetarchiveSuite wayback plugin which enables wayback to extract harvested data from the archive via NetarchiveResourceStore or NetarchiveCachingResourceStore.
Because of specific security requirements there are two further layers between the wayback server and the end user. These are
- A kerberos proxy responsible for logging of all requests, and
- An F5 FirePass brower-plugin based VPN solution, to ensure encrypted access when browsing from outside the institutional firewalls of the two home institutions.
Limitations
The wayback proxy is http only. It is essentially impossible to use such a proxy solution for browsing of https-harvested sites, nor does the solution work for ftp-harvested material.
For more information in general see Tools in the Wayback module and Wayback Configuration.
Users
Only a handfull very limited number of people researchers are currently using the Wayback access to the Danish webarchives. A dedicated VPN access has been established to ensure secure usage of the production Wayback. The Viewerproxy is used for Curator access to the Archive.
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