Setting Proxy Preferences

Cosmo Create allows you to configure your proxies in order to get outside your local networking firewall to download content from the Internet.

Note: If Netscape is set up to get outside the firewall, Cosmo Create uses Netscape's preferences and you don't need to set them up by hand; this panel provides you with the opportunity to do so if you wish.

To set your proxy preferences, follow these steps:

  1. Choose File > Preferences

  2. Click the Proxies tab on the Preferences dialog tab deck.

  3. Specify which behavior you want to change. A firewall is a system that allows applications to get outside of their local network to an external network such as the Internet. SOCKS and HTTP Proxy servers are two different kinds of firewalls. Your site can have either SOCKS or an HTTP Proxy server or both. In the event both kinds of firewalls are available: