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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.
- 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 more details
refer to the documentation for Internet Explorer.
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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