Configuring network connections

If your environment requires a proxy, you can configure the network connections to permit access to web help from your help server.

Procedure

To configure your network proxy settings:

  1. With your product open, click Help > Preferences or Windows > Preferences, depending on your version of help. The Preferences window opens.
  2. Click Network Connections, and on the Network Connections page, enter your proxy server information. For details about the information to provide, see the next table.
    Table 1. Network connections preferences
    Option Description Default setting
    Active Provider Specifies the settings profile to be used when opening connections. If you select Direct provider, all connections are opened without using a proxy server. If you select Manual, the settings that are defined in the help WAR file are used. On some platforms, a Native provider setting is also available. If you select Native provider, the settings that were discovered in the operating system are used. Native, if present, Manual, otherwise
    Proxy entries The following table shows entries that are available for all providers. The check boxes in the first column of the table indicate entries to use for the currently selected provider.
    When you select Manual for the proxy provider, you configure settings for three predefined schemas: HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS.a Configuration for each schema is displayed in the table 2. To edit settings for a particular schema, double-click the entry or select the entry, and then click Edit. If you leave the Port field blank, the default port number is used. This table lists the default port numbers for predefined schema.
    Table 1. Proxy entries ports.
    Schema Default port
    HTTP 80
    SSL 443
    SOCKS 1080
     
    Proxy bypass Specifies, either by name or pattern, which hosts must not use a proxy. A direct connection is always used for matching hosts. The check boxes in the first column of the table indicate entries to use for the currently selected provider.  
    Table note:
    1. The SOCKS proxy support in Java 1.4 had limitations. Because of these limitations, when a Java virtual machine (VM) 1.4 is used, the SOCKS system properties are not set. The SOCKS proxy might still be used by tools such as CVS when running on a version 1.4 VM. However, if users require full SOCKS proxy support, use a version 1.5 (or 5.0) VM .
  3. Click OK.

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