Web Client - CTRL+Click Required to Open http Links

[Jennifer Pringle]

Evergreen 3.1

In the staff catalogue any links for e-resources that use http rather than https will not open unless you hold down CRTL when you click them. This is happening in both Chrome and Firefox.

The ideal solution is to have all links for e-resources use https but some vendors may not currently offer https.

[Jennifer Pringle (jpringle-u)]

Also, http links open without issue in the OPAC.

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

As a workaround in our implementation, we added target="_blank" so that those links will always open in a new tab.

[Mike Rylander (mrylander)]

IMO, Terran's suggestion is the best solution for both patron and staff views.

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

Patch submitted to open electronic resource links in new tab:

http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/mccanna/lp1777954_opening_http_links

[Dan Wells (dbw2)]

This looks good, Terran. Thank you! I have signed off on the existing commit, then added a second to do the same for the results list. Branch is here:

http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/collab/dbwells/lp1777954_opening_http_links

working/collab/dbwells/lp1777954_opening_http_links

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

Thank you Terran and Dan! It works for me. Merged to master, release 3.1 and release 3.0.