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Web browser configuration


You may have to configure your Web browsers to send all requests via the WEBsweeper machine. This depends on whether you already use a proxy server and, if so, where WEBsweeper is positioned with respect to that proxy server.

Two pieces of information are needed to configure the Web browsers:

Configuration is similar for both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer Web browsers. See page 3-27 and page 3-28 respectively.

Netscape Navigator

To configure Netscape Navigator:

1. Select Network preferences from the Options menu, to display a Preferences dialog box.
2. Select the Proxies tab, then check the Manual Configuration button.
3. Click on the View button. This displays a dialog box into which you can enter the hostname and port number for WEBsweeper, in the FTP Proxy and HTTP Proxy fields.

In this example, WEBsweeper resides on the machine WEBsweeper.example.com and uses port 80.

For secure HTTP (or HTTPS) to work the Security Proxy field must not be set to go via WEBsweeper.

4. Click on the OK button.

For more details refer to the documentation for Netscape Navigator.

Internet Explorer

To configure Internet Explorer:

1. Select Options from the View menu, to display the Options dialog box.
2. Click on the Connection tab. This displays a dialog box into which you can enter the WEBsweeper details.
3. Check the Connect through a proxy server box and enter the hostname and port number for WEBsweeper, in the HTTP and FTP fields.

In this example, WEBsweeper resides on the machine WEBsweeper.example.com and uses port 80.

4. Click on the OK button.
For secure HTTP (or HTTPS) to work ensure that the Use the same proxy server for all protocols box is unchecked. Also ensure that the value in the fields for the other protocols (that is, Secure, Gopher and Socks) is not set to go via WEBsweeper.

For more details refer to the documentation for Internet Explorer.

Auto proxy configuration

To facilitate automatic proxy configuration, both Netscape Navigator and Internet explorer (version 3.02 and above) support script programs that can return the details of the proxy. This allows you to maintain a single file specifying the proxy configuration, making it easier to maintain and update in the future.

The Web browsers are configured to access this file as a URL.

For more details see the following Web sites:

http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html

and

http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ieak/autouser.htm

For Netscape Navigator:

1. Select Network Preferences from the Options menu, to display a Preferences dialog box.
2. Select the Proxies tab, then check the Automatic Proxy Configuration box.
3. Enter the URL of the proxy configuration file and click the Reload button.

For Internet Explorer 3.02:

1. Select Options from the View menu.
2. Click the Advanced tab and then select Automatic Configuration.
3. Enter the URL of the proxy configuration file.
4. Click on the OK button.
5. Close all dialog boxes, and then restart Internet Explorer.



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