Manual Proxies and Netscape Communicator

[Charles A. Summerhill]

Take a look at a program called "RoadBlock" from Sandhill Solutions
(http://www.sandsol.com/). Cheap ($19.00) shareware that can be set up on
any Win95 and/or WinNT station and provide simplified proxy services (okay,
really just blocking DNS services). Can be setup to allow only certain
sites, or block certain sites. It is what I use.

Hope this helps.

--Charles A. Summerhill
  LibraryLRC Network Guy
  University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
  http://www.librarylrc.uams.edu/


-----Original Message-----
From: Green, Denise <Green.Denise at uis.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wednesday, March 04, 1998 2:11 PM
Subject: Manual Proxies and Netscape Communicator


>
>My library is using Windows NT and Netscape Communicator for public access
>to the online catalog, periodical indexes, and other research databases via
>the Web.
>Has anyone figured a way to use Manual Proxies to limit access to a
specific
>set of URLs ?
>
>We only have so many computers and don't want general Web surfing at all of
>them. We would like to limit access to approximately 20 URLs related to
>Ovid, FirstSearch, InfoTrac, CIS Compass, UnCover, etc. Has anyone used the
>Manual Proxies technique to do this?
>
>Any other ideas?
>
>Thanks, Denise Green
>Brookens Library