Browser Configuration Help

WWW Shield is an HTTP proxy server. This means that your browser will send all web page requests to the proxy, which will forward it to the appropriate server and modify the reply according to certain rules. WWW Shield can be configured to talk to another proxy such as squid or http-gw.

Once the browser is configured to talk to the proxy, the fact that there is a proxy is invisible. Nothing special needs to be done when choosing URLs or following links. The following instructions describe how to set up the browser to talk to WWW Shield.

Netscape 4

• Choose Preferences from the Edit menu in the top button row.
• Click on the triangle to the left of Advanced.
• Choose Proxies.
• Select Manual Proxy Configuration.
• Press the View... button.
• In the dialog box, enter the IP address of the host that WWW Shield is running on) in the HTTP Proxy text field.
• Enter the WWW Shield port (currently configured as , the default is 1188) in the Port text field next to HTTP Proxy field.
• Press OK in the dialog box and in the Preferences dialog.

Netscape 3

• Choose Network Preferences from the Options menu in the top button row.
• Press on the Proxy tab.
• Select Manual Proxy Configuration.
• Press the View... button.
• In the dialog box, enter the IP address of the host that WWW Shield is running on) in the HTTP Proxy text field.
• Enter the WWW Shield port (currently configured as , the default is 1188) in the Port text field next to HTTP Proxy field.
• Press OK in the dialog box and in the Network Preferences dialog.
• Choose Save Options from the Options menu in the top button row to make the changes permanent.

Internet Explorer

Of course you are not using Internet Explorer. I am serious; it is dangerous (it comes with Microsoft's newest Virus Construction Kit called ActiveX, for example). I don't know where you want to go today but I suggest www.netscape.com. Netscape is not unproblematic (at this time its ``What's related'' feature seems to be raise serious privacy concerns) but at least it doesn't hand over your computer to any random stranger.

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