Netscape Navigator 4.x
- From the
Edit
pulldown menu, select
Preferences.
- On the left of the dialog box is a column of categories. Toward the bottom of this
column is the
Advanced category.
Click on the Advanced category in order to make it the current category.
-
Expand the
Advanced category by hitting the
right-arrow key. Alternatively, click on the tiny plus-sign to the left
of the
Advanced category label.
Subcategories like
Cache
and
Proxies
should now be displayed below the
Advanced category label.
-
Click on the Proxies category in order to make it the current category.
-
Click on the
Manual proxy configuration radio button.
-
Click on the
View button.
-
Set
HTTP
to
127.0.0.1 (which tells Navigator that Browser Spinach is installed on the current machine,
as opposed to elsewhere on the network).
-
Immediately to the right, set
Port to
38200.
|
Netscape Navigator 3.x
- From the
Options
pulldown menu, select
Network Preferences.
- Select the
Proxies tab.
-
Click on the
Manual Proxy Configuration check box.
-
Click on the
View button.
-
Set
HTTP Proxy
to
127.0.0.1 (which tells Navigator that Browser Spinach is installed on the current machine,
as opposed to elsewhere on the network).
-
Immediately to the right, set
Port
to 38200.
|
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x
-
From the
View
pulldown menu, select
Internet Options.
-
Go to the
Connection tab.
-
In the
Proxy Server
group of options, check the
Access the Internet using a proxy server
check box.
-
Warning: you must leave blank the
Address
and
Port
fields visible below the
Access the Internet using a proxy server
check box. (Setting these fields would establish
Browser Spinach as a proxy server for all protocols, but Browser Spinach
should only be a proxy for HTTP queries.)
-
Click the
Advanced
button.
-
For HTTP, set
Address
to
127.0.0.1 (which tells Explorer that Browser Spinach is installed on the current machine,
as opposed to elsewhere on the network).
-
Set
Port
to 38200.
|
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
-
From the
Tools
pulldown menu, select
Internet Options.
-
Go to the
Connections tab.
-
If
you use DSL or
your computer is on a local area network (LAN), then click on the
LAN Settings button. Otherwise, in the
Dial-up Settings
group of options, select the connection through which you wish
to determine whether Browser Spinach will be used. (If you are among the many users who only
have one connection defined, then this connection will already
be selected, so you don't need to do anything more for this step. If you have more
than one connection and you want these settings
to apply to them all, then you have to repeat the following steps for each
of the connections.)
-
In the
Dial-up Settings
group of options, click the
Settings
button.
-
In the
Proxy Server
group of options, check the
Use a proxy server
check box.
-
Warning: you must leave blank the
Address
and
Port
fields visible below the
Use a proxy server
check box. (Setting these fields would establish
Browser Spinach as a proxy server for all protocols, but Browser Spinach
should only be a proxy for HTTP queries.)
-
Click the
Advanced
button.
-
For HTTP, set
Address
to
127.0.0.1 (which tells Explorer that Browser Spinach is installed on the current machine,
as opposed to elsewhere on the network).
-
Set
Port
to 38200.
|
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.x
-
From the
View
pulldown menu, select
Options.
-
Go to the
Connection tab.
-
In the
Proxy Server
group of options, check the
Connect through a proxy server
check box.
-
Click the
Settings
button.
-
Set the HTTP text field
to
127.0.0.1 (which tells Explorer that Browser Spinach is installed on the current machine,
as opposed to elsewhere on the network).
-
Set
Port,
the text field immediately to the right
to 38200.
|