At a recent community event, an editor suggested that instead of users needing to remember the proxy prefix to directly open a paywalled URL, the search box on the library should attempt to do so if presented with a URL. Explaining that this is available functionality in the UI might be challenging, but I could certainly imagine users attempting to do this for lack of a better option.
Currently, entering a URL in EDS doesn't return sensible results. This was tested with a JSTOR URL, which we have access to, which returned zero results when searched.
When a user enters a string which looks like a URL into the search box (starts with `https://`), instead of searching EDS when they click submit, they should instead be sent to `https://wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/login?auth=production&url=<THEIR URL HERE>`.