[WEB4LIB] Netscape Proxy

[Andrew Mutch]

For those who want a graphical version of Larry's instructions, see:

http://northville.lib.mi.us/tech/lockin.htm

Good Luck!

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI


On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Larry Schankman wrote:

> >We have a problem with users getting out the Internet through
> >Netscape 4.x through the Adobe Acrobat hot key.  When a user
> >selects the document in adobe acrobat format, the window pops
> >up just fine inside the Netscape window, although there is a hot
> >link to Adobe's web site which in turn allows access to the Web
> >through clicking around the site.
>
> David,
>
> If you only use those workstations to access SearchBank and a few
> other sites you could limit web access via Netscape's Proxy
> settings. This works beautifully with IKIOSK, since you can block
> student access to Web preferences.
>
> Here are the steps:
>
> 1. click on edit, preferences, advanced, proxies
> 2. toggle the setting here to Manual proxy configuration
> 3. click on view
> 4. type on the http line (on top) any text message (e.g. "You
> ain't goin' there")
> 5. in the exceptions section (bottom half of screen) enter all
> possible URLs that are allowable (keep in mind that SearchBank has
> several servers).
>
> Note: enter URLs without the http:// or any trailing slashes, and
> separate addresses with commas. For example:
>
> www.searchbank.com, web4.infotrac-custom.com, etc.
>
> p.s. I experiemented with this a year or so ago, but since we use
> the web to go to other reference sites, we decided not to use it.
> As a compromise, we use IKIOSK to block the ability to type in a
> URL. Students can still surf, but not as easily, and the unsaavy
> ones don't try.
>
> Cheers,
>
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