Network Connections Preferences

Network Connections

On the Network Connections page you can set needed network connections (see Figure 1). By default the Direct connection to the Internet option is selected. To allow connection to the remote server from behind the firewall, select the Manual proxy configuration option. The below fields are enabled. Specify needed options for the proxy server:

Enter URL into HTTP proxy field. Also you can specify a port in the Port field. You can set On the option Use this proxy server for SSL.
Specify SSL proxy server location in the SSL proxy field. Optionally you can enter a port in the Port field.
Specify SOCK proxy server location in the SOCKS proxy field (please refer Wikipedia for more information about SOCKS). Optionally you can enter a port in the Port field.

Figure 1. Network Connections page

You can specify host names, for which No Proxy for function is applied:

Add a new host by clicking on Add Host button. The No proxy host names dialog window appears (see Figure 2).
Specify a host name in the text field and click OK button.

Figure 2. Nor Proxy host names dialog window

Select the Enable proxy authentication check box to turn the option On. The below fields are enabled, specify a user name and a password there.

After all needed entries were filled, click OK or Apply buttons on the bottom section of the page to apply settings.

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