OpenAthens Ideas Portal

We're always looking for ways to improve our products, and we'd love your input to help us make that happen. Your suggestions will guide us in deciding where we should focus our future research and development.

Just sign in with your email to share your thoughts or vote for ideas you like—it'll help them get noticed!


Here’s how the portal is organised:

  • Librarians (Identity Providers): Share ideas that help organisations that manage user identities and provide access to online content and services. This includes improving the experience for students and researchers.

  • Publishers (Service Providers): Share ideas for organisations that offer content and services.


Guidance on using this portal

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Status Feedback wanted
Workspace Librarians
Categories Accessing resources Proxy
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 18, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Request to support non-standard ports (e.g. 8080) on the proxy.

Currently the OpenAthens proxy supports only standard HTTP/HTTPS ports (80 and 443). Some customers have locally hosted resources running on non-standard ports, for example http://www.domain.com:8080, which cannot be supported yet.

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? Yes
Idea type Day-to-day tasks/actions improvements, Improves value of OpenAthens to my team/organization, Something to improve
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