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Chapter 7 Preparing to Customize Proxy Configurations
The CCK tool includes a screen called Customize Proxy Configurations that specifies the same settings available in the Advanced/Proxies section of the Mozilla 1.4.1 Preferences dialog box.
This chapter contains these sections:
About Proxy Configurations
Default Network Proxy Configurations
Many organizations block access from the Internet to their networks. This prevents outside parties from gaining access to sensitive information. The protection is called a firewall.
If your organization has a firewall, the browser may need to go through a proxy server before connecting your users to the Internet. The proxy server prevents outsiders from breaking into your organization's private network.
Default Network Proxy Configurations
The CCK tool allows you to choose among the proxy configuration options listed below. They are identical to the options available in the Advanced/Proxies section of the Mozilla 1.4.1 Preferences dialog box. To see this section:
- Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
- Click the Advanced category. If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.
- Click Proxies.
These are the default options for the Proxies preferences panel that you can set in the CCK tool:
- Direct connection to the Internet. Choose this option if your users don't have to go through a proxy.
- Manual proxy configuration. Choose this option if your users don't have a proxy configuration file. Type the name or numeric IP address of the proxy server for HTTP and FTP. Type each proxy server's port number in the Port field.
- In the "No Proxy for:" field, type the names of any domains that your users can connect to directly, bypassing the proxy. For example, if you type
mozilla.org, then the proxy is bypassed each time your users view a web page from mozilla.org.
- Domain names are the part of a URL that contains the name of an organization, business, or school—such as
mozilla.orgorwashington.org. If you use local host names without the domain name, list them the same way. Use commas to separate multiple host names. The wildcard character [*] cannot be used.
- Automatic proxy configuration URL. Choose this option if you have a proxy configuration file.
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Last Updated October 05, 2001