The proxy server allows members of the WCL community anywhere in the world to use any of the databases to which we subscribe. When you are asked to login, please use the userid and password you use for my.american.edu.

Having Difficulties?

Username/Password is not working

If your username and password do not seem to work, and you are a member of the WCL community (this proxy server only works for WCL students, faculty, and staff), try using the portal (my.american.edu). If you can't successfully login to the portal, the problem is most likely that your login password has expired. Try using the portal to reset your password. If that doesn't work, contact the WCL Office of Technology for assistance (email or telephone 202-274-4021).

If you can login to the my.american.edu portal but not the proxy server, and you are a member of the WCL community, please contact John Heywood, by telephone at 202-274-4329 or by email at heywood@wcl.american.edu.

I get a "Security Alert" when I try to use the proxy server.

If you get a dialog box such as this one in Internet Explorer (Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, Safari, and other web browsers will display a similar dialog box):

go ahead and accept the certificate. We have signed our own SSL certificate instead of paying a Certificate Authority such as Verisign to sign it for us. As we are not an online commerce website, we really couldn't justify the expense of a commercial wildcard security certificate.

If you want to double-check that the certificate is really the one we signed, you can view it. It should be issued by *.proxy.wcl.american.edu and issued to *.proxy.wcl.american.edu, the organizational name (O) should be "American University," and the Organizational Unit name (OU) should be "Pence Law Library." One or both of the following finger/thumbprints should be listed:

SHA1 -- D6:1F:AC:43:41:F6:A8:81:13:45:03:8F:A0:61:4E:33:56:90:D7:88

MD5 -- 10:3B:FD:12:A6:B5:8C:C0:72:2A:5B:C1:B5:CC:39:25