FYI: The campus Virtual Private Network (VPN) service will be changing during the summer.

Starting July 16: a message will be displayed to VPN users after they authenticate, informing them of the new service and recommending that they switch over by August 12, 2009.

On August 12: the current VPN service will be disabled.

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Proxy service users who visit websites that use the "https" protocol, including Lexis Nexis Academic, CQ California Political Almanac, and Chinese Ancient Texts (CHANT), should be able to do so without problems as of September 5, 2008.

A proxy server programming workaround is in place for Firefox and Internet Explorer users.

However, the Safari browser is not supported for proxy access to https websites, and proxy users should enable Firefox for proxy access to resources that use the https protocol.

The SAE Digital Library is no longer available to UCB users, and the CDL Help Desk ticket has been closed. Here are some suggestions for other ways to locate SAE documents.

Date reported: March 21, 2007

Updated: May 30, 2008