Christoph

In the latest dev version I don't get any exception https://builds.jabref.org/main/ Opening the folder works fine and I can replae it with a local file.

Ah Okay seems odd and a windows issue... Tested on mac

Did you restart JabRef after adding the SSL certs? MIght be that the certifacte config is evaluated at startup The error indicates a general timeout. Do other fetchers work?

That seems like there is something else coming back, mabye html or whatever, but not json...

Do you see anything in the log (despite the exception), something about SSL verification or similar? I am just looking at the code, trying to figure out where the certs...

Can you try this version? https://builds.jabref.org/pull/10099/merge I tried to fix this issue with the certificate handling by merging the jdk certs with the custom ones

@bhatiaa1 Any chance already testing the version I linked? That would be highly appreciated

Hi, Urls belong in the URL field. JabRef will display an option to open the link. Alternatively, you can add an URL in the file field. For DOIs we have...

For reference, the code in JabRef that handles file fields is this one: https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/4230b5d177c43360c4c26ce003db0a661dc71d63/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/importer/util/FileFieldParser.java#L15

Some ideas are also disussed in the forum thread how other programs can do this: https://discourse.jabref.org/t/display-cover-images-for-books/3647