Manual Proxy Configuration

Both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator support manual proxy configuration. Users can specify the proxy server and port for each protocol. Users can also specify one proxy server and port for all protocols. To minimize the workload of the proxy server, some sites might bypass the proxy server completely when a machine is connecting to another machine inside the intranet environment. To do this, network administrators and users can specify the proxy server bypass list in the browser's setting.

Internet Explorer: Java Plug-in recognizes and supports the proxy server and port setting associated with the protocol. Internet Explorer supports various syntaxes in the proxy server bypass list, as follows:

• IP address/hostname only

• IP address/hostname with wildcard

• IP address/hostname with protocol

For example, if you specify "121.141.23.5;*.eng;http://*.com" in the proxy server bypass list, then the browser bypasses the proxy whenever one of the following occurs:

• "121.141.23.5" is requested

• the URL hostname ends with ".eng"

• the URL protocol is http and the URL hostname ends with ".com"

Currently, Java Plug-in supports the first two syntaxes in the proxy server bypass list in Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer also supports bypassing the proxy server for local (intranet) addresses without using the proxy server bypass list. Java Plug-in supports this option by bypassing the proxy server if the URL hostname is plain; i.e., the hostname contains no dot (.).

Netscape Navigator:Java Plug-in recognizes and supports the proxy server and port setting associated with the protocol. For example, if you specify ".eng,.sun.com" in the proxy server bypass list in the Netscape Navigator browser, it bypasses the proxy whenever the URL hostname ends with ".eng" or ".sun.com". Java Plug-in fully supports this syntax in the proxy server bypass list in Navigator.

For more information about manual proxy configuration in your browser, please consult the user guide for your browser.