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Configuring your users browsers.
PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
We assume here that your LOCAL CACHE has
been previously configured to peer with the
JWCS.
Advice on configuring your local cache to use
the JWCS with MS Proxy and Squid is available
from the JWCS
Configuring your users browsers. Internet
Explorer
PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
You could either choose to have your systems people
configure all your browsers, or get the users to amend the
settings themselves in someway.
Open Internet Explorer
Go to the “Tools” menu.
Select “Internet Options”
Configuring your users browsers. Internet
Explorer
PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
Select the “Connections” tab.
You will now have a menu
which looks like this:
Press the “LAN Settings”
button.
Configuring your users browsers. Internet
Explorer
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See the LAN Settings menu as below.
Tick either the “Automatically
Detect Settings” or “Use automatic
Configuration script” boxes.
FOR FURTHER ADVICE
REGARDINGTHESE SETTINGS
PLEASE CONTACT THE JWCS.
Tick the “Use a Proxy Server”
box.
Configuring your users browsers.
Internet Explorer
PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
Still in the LAN Settings menu,
DO NOT tick the “Bypass Proxy
for local addresses” box. We will enter
those details somewhere else.
Enter your proxy server address
and port number in the address and
port fields under the “Use Proxy Server” box.
Press the “Advanced” button.
Configuring your users browsers. Internet
Explorer
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Tick the “use same proxy server
for all protocols” box.
In the “Exceptions” field, enter
your local addresses which should
NOT use the proxy.
NON - CACHEABLE items
which we discussed earlier are
Filtered out in the Web Servers
Caching software.
Configuring your users browsers.
Internet Explorer
PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
Press the “OK” button until you
have exited the IE “Internet Options”
menu and are back at the main
browser screen.
Configuring your users browsers.
NETSCAPE
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Go back to your desktop and open Netscape
Navigator / Communicator.
Go to the “edit” menu and select
“preferences”
Configuring your users browsers.
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The Preferences
menu looks like that shown
here.
Double-click on the
“Advanced” menu. 3 submenus should then appear.
Configuring your users browsers.
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Double-click on the
“Proxies” menu.
Configuring your users browsers.
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The “Proxies” menu can
Be configured either manually
or by using a script.
For automatic configuration
you should enter the URL which
points to the location of the config.pac
file on your Webserver.
e.g. http://wwwconfig.fictional.ac.uk/config.pac
Configuring your users browsers.
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For manual configuration, select
the “manual proxy configuration”
button and press the “view” button.
Configuring your users browsers.
NETSCAPE
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The manual configuration
looks like this.
Complete relevant sections
and add exceptions into the “Do
not use proxy servers for” field.
Click “OK” until you are back
to the main browser screen.
Contacting the JANET Web Cache Service
Support. – What the user sees.
PRACTICAL EXERCISE 2
The JWCS offer a support service to help users who
experience errors and difficulties whilst surfing the web.
Please double click on Internet Explorer.
In the “address” field type:
http://www.manchesteronline/zzzxxaa
Contacting the JANET Web Cache Service
Support. – What the user sees.
PRACTICAL EXERCISE 2
As you can see, you
are presented with an
error message from the
National JANET Web
Cache Service as shown.
Note the email given
at the bottom of the section.
Contacting the JANET Web Cache Service
Support. – What the user sees.
PRACTICAL EXERCISE 2
When contacting
[email protected]
include any error messages
shown on this page.
Use the email account
and client given to you to contact
JWCS Support.
Include the word FAKE at
the beginning of your subject.
Contacting the JANET Web Cache Service
Support. – What the user sees.
PRACTICAL EXERCISE 2
The JWCS support team will respond to any users’
enquiry sent to [email protected].
All replies from JWCS Support are by email and contain
a unique TICKET NUMBER in the subject field e.g.
JWCS-TICK# 20010521.1954 Re: Janet WWWCache
Users should keep this ticket number in the subject
field.
The automatic tickets enable JWCS support to track all
support enquiries.