Network

Here you can fine-tune communication between your computer and the Internet.

Browser identification

Some sites provide content adapted to particular browsers.

Because browsers are in constant development, assumptions made by page designers may not have the intended effect.

If you have problems using a site, try changing browser identification (F12) and reload the page.

International Web addresses

When using international characters in Web addresses, some servers expect to get "latin-1" characters without encoding, that is as http://www.example.com/æøå.html rather than http://www.example.com/%F6%F8%F5.html .

Try changing this setting if you have problems with international Web addresses.

Proxy servers

A proxy server is a computer that:

1. Stores local copies of Web pages for quick access to a group of people in a central place (like a company)
2. Acts as interpreter between your browser and a special service

To configure a proxy, you need to specify:

1. A protocol (like http)
2. An Internet address (like proxy.example.com or 207.69.194.213)
3. A port number (like 5000)

You can get this information from:

1. Your service provider
2. The people hosting the proxy server
3. Documentation that comes with your proxy software

Click and enter the necessary information. All traffic over the respective protocol will now go through the proxy server.

To access certain sites without going through the proxy, enter Web addresses to exclude in the list.

If your provider requires automatic proxy, please enter the Web address you have been provided.

Learn more about proxies

Server name completion

When you enter a single word (e.g. "opera") in the address field, Opera will:

1. Look for a bookmark nicknamed "opera"
2. Look for a computer in your local network called "opera"
3. Add prefixes (e.g. "www") and suffixes (e.g. "com") and look up "www.opera.com"

Tip: You can enter comma-separated lists of prefixes and suffixes.

Note: It takes time to try these combinations, so turn this feature off for faster browsing.

Performance

Turn syncronous DNS on if:

1. Your DNS server can only look up one IP number at a time (ask your service provider)
2. You are using Windows 95 with the Winsock 2 upgrade

Try changing the numerical settings if you have a slow computer or have problems with your Internet connection, but be sure you know what you are doing.

Server errors

To make server errors more understandable, you can have them displayed in a dialog box in your own language.

FTP

When accessing an FTP service with a username and a path, like john@ftp.example.com:games/c64, the path can be interpreted as either:

1. Relative to the user's home directory (/home/john/games/c64)
2. An absolute path (/games/c64)

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