<FONT SIZE=1>Enter the following details for Webserve:
<UL>
<LI>If your service supplier has a proxy server, enter
its address <B>and port number</B> in the <B>Remote proxy</B> field. Your supplier will tell you what this is. (This is not obligatory.)
<LI>Enter the <B>Cache size</B> required and the <B>Max</B>imum number of simultaneous <B>connect</B>ions you want to allow to the cache (10-12 is an average number: too many will slow down the response time).
<LI>Enter the TCP/IP <B>port</B> number of the mail server machine
used for connecting with its local clients. This is set by default to 80, which is the normal value.
<LI>
WebServe will try to connect with the remote proxy cache unless you tick <B>Assume connection is already active</B>.
<LI>Tick the next option not to <B>allow other machines to connect</B> with the the server
<LI>Finally, you can choose whether or not WebServe displays an <B>icon bar icon</B>.
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<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Clicking Select on the WebServe icon bar icon (or
choosing <B>Status...</B> from the menu) will display the current
status of proxy cache access.</FONT>
<H3><A NAME="_Ref400438293">Setting the local</A> <A NAME="cache">cache
</A> size and expiry times</H3>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>The Web browser will cache pages on a machine's hard
disc in an application called !WebCache, which !WebServe expects
to find in the same directory as itself.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Load !Connect, then choose <B>Admin/Expiry
times/URLs</B> from the !Connect icon bar menu. The URL expiry
<FONT SIZE=3>Type in the amount of space on your hard disc you
can devote to caching Web pages: a minimum of 10MB is recommended.
A larger cache will perform better if you are using the Web heavily.
When the space limit is reached, the least-recently-used site
will be flushed from the cache.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Set the Default expiry time for cached Web pages.
Cached pages will be flushed when they reach their expiry time.</FONT>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>You can specify a different expiry time for (an)
individual page(s) if you enter its address in the 'Expiry time
for URL' box and set its new expiry time. You will want to flush
some pages, such as satellite weather pictures, after only a day
or so.</FONT>
<H3>Flushing the cache</H3>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>If you need to flush (clear out) your page cache,
for whatever reason, choose <B>Flush
cache</B> from the WebServe icon bar menu.</FONT>
<H3>Making the proxy/cache server available to other Web Browsers
</H3>
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>!WebServe will only serve pages to users !Connect
knows about and who have Web access. If you are using other (possibly
non-Acorn) Web Browsers as well as Acorn Internet software, however,
it is possible for these browsers to be served pages by !WebServe as a user called `alien' has been registered with !Connect and given Web access. In this way a request for a page from another Browser will not be blocked by !Connect.</FONT>
Changes you make to Colours will take immediate effect on open windows. HTML pages which specify their own colours will override these choices (unless <B>Display/Use document colours</B> is <B>off</B> for that window).
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Click on <B>Fonts</B> to display the <B>Fonts</B>
<LI><FONT SIZE=1>Set the standard main <B>Body text</B> font<LI>
Set the standard <B>Headings</B> font<LI>
Set the standard <B>Fixed</B>-width font (for code fragments, ReadMe files, and so on) <LI>
Set the <B>Base size</B> for fonts used by the Browser<LI>
Set the aspect ratio (i.e. the relationship between the height and the width) of the fixed-width font used. Values less than 100% give a narrower, more space-efficient font. <B>PRE</B> is one of the html tags using a fixed-width font.<LI>
You can alternatively choose <B>system font</B> for use in the Browser.
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Changes you make to Fonts will take immediate effect on open windows
<P>
<FONT SIZE=3>Click on <B>Hotlist</B> to display the <B>Hotlist</B>
<LI><FONT SIZE=1>You can choose whether or not your Browser supports <B>Tables</B> on the next and subsequent fetches.
<LI>If tables are allowed, then you can set the type of borders (if any) you want displayed (2D, 3D or Auto 2D/3D). Changing borders has an immediate effect.<LI>Choose whether or not to support data types requiring 'helper' applications, or 'Plug-ins' (see <A HREF="jashk"> Playing other multimedia types</A>).<LI>
If you do allow the Browser to support these data types,you can choose the point at which Plug-ins
are launched:
<UL>
<LI>
<B>Don't start</B>
<LI>Only when the data is <B>viewed on the page</B>, or
<LI>
<B>As soon as possible</B>.</UL>
<BR>Plug-ins require quite a lot of memory to run, so you may not
want them to load right away, or at all.
<BR>Support for these objects will be active from the next fetch
<LI>You can also choose whether or not you want to use <B>a local proxy</B> server, such as !WebServe. If you make a change to this option, click on <B>Save</B>; the change will take effect next time you start the Browser.
