[WEB4LIB] Fwd: OS X, IE, and automatic proxy configuration scripts

[Randy Souther]

As with Explorer 5 and Mac OS 9, it can't be configured to use the proxy
you're using. 

Innovative Interfaces, which I believe is your catalog vendor, is beta
testing a different remote access system which does not require the
automatic proxy configuration. For this they have licensed technology from
EZProxy; we're using it now, and a few bugs aside, it is working great.

Randy Souther
Gleeson Library | Geschke Center
University of San Francisco

On 2/25/02 11:46 AM, "Lee Jaffe" <ldjaffe at cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:

> I'm forwarding this for a colleague.... -- Lee Jaffe, UC Santa Cruz
> 
>> From: "Judit E. Sedillos" <jsedillo at cats.ucsc.edu>
>> Subject: OS X, IE, and automatic proxy configuration scripts
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> anybody out there with experience in successfully setting up
>> Internet Explorer 5.1 on Mac OSX
>> to use an automatic proxy configuration script (such as:
>> http://library.ucsc.edu/proxy/libroxy.pac)?
>> I've had no luck trying to set it up, even though I managed to
>> configure Netscape 6.2 on OS X to do the trick. (All other browsers
>> seem to have an option to check for "use automatic proxy
>> configuration script" and a field to enter a url.)
>> 
>> The library provides proxy access to restricted resources through
>> this script. Any other platform/browser combo can be successfully
>> configured in a snap, but I have had no such luck with this.
>> 
>> If you've done this before successfully, please don't spare me...!!
>> 
>> Thanks!!!
>> 
>> Judit
>> 
>> 
>> PS:
>> Background info on the proxy access:
>> http://library.ucsc.edu/access/sluglink/
>> 
>> Judit Sedillos
>> Computer Resource Specialist
>> UCSC McHenry Library
>> accesscomputing at library.ucsc.edu
>> (831) 459-4515
>> 
>> http://library.ucsc.edu/Zope/computing/help