If you're running &browser.name.prefix;TM &browser.name.suffix; in a networked environment and you're having trouble accessing Web pages, you might need to set proxy servers to enable access outside of your company network. Proxies are the servers, or gateways, for Internet access through your network firewall.
Your system administrator may have already set up &browser.name; to use proxies that are appropriate for your site. If not, you can specify proxy servers using the Proxy Preferences options.
Although this is a somewhat advanced preference option, setting your proxies appropriately is necessary if you want to be able to access sites outside of your company network. You may need to ask your system administrator for help with filling out the proxy preferences.
When you type in a Web site address, the first part of the address (the part before the ":", such as "http") is the Internet transfer protocol of the page you are trying to access. This indicates the page type and how the browser accesses the page. Each type of protocol may use a different proxy server and port. The port is the "channel" the proxy server uses to listen for particular types of communication requests.
&browser.name; supports the following protocols for which you may need to set proxies and ports.
In addition to the protocols listed, you can also set a SOCKS proxy and port. SOCKS is another kind of server that allows access across a network firewall. Ask your system administrator if you should be using SOCKS or the other proxy servers, or both, and the name and port of the appropriate servers.
Note: Do not put values in the SOCKS field if you do not have a SOCKS server. Doing so will prevent you from viewing pages outside your company firewall, even if you have correct values in the protocol proxy fields.
If you have specified proxies but you want to ignore the proxies when connecting to particular hosts, such as those within your firewall, type the full host names in the Bypass Proxies text field. Full host names are in the form host.domain. For example, type server.mycompany.com to connect directly with the host server in the domain mycompany.com. Separate multiple names with spaces or carriage returns.
You can also specify that you want to bypass proxies for an entire domain
by typing the domain name, starting with a period, in the Bypass Proxies
field.
For example, type
In addition to the proxy settings, you can use Preferences pages to customize several other aspects of &browser.name;. Follow these links for detailed information in the User's Guide about each of the possible Preferences pages:
On some platforms, you may also see:
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