Internet Explorer

WinGate Requirements

Make sure you have a WWW Proxy running. Check which port it is running on.

Make sure the SOCKS server is running, and you have DNS working on your LAN

Explorer Setup:

1. From the MSIE menu bar, under the "View" menu, choose 'Options…' to bring up the "Options" dialog box.

2. Select the "Connection" tab and in the 'Proxy server' area, enable the 'Connect through a proxy server' option. Click on the 'Settings…' button to bring up the "Proxy Settings" dialog box.

3. In the 'Servers' area, disable the 'Use the same proxy server for all protocols' option.

4. Under 'Address of proxy to use' for the HTTP FTP and Secure address types, enter 'wingate', or whatever label you gave in your hosts file to the machine running WinGate. Enter the port number that the WWW proxy in WinGate is configured to accept connections on for HTTP FTP and Secure. This is usually 80.

5. For the Socks address proxy enter 'wingate'. In the "Port:" entry adjacent to this entry, enter the port number that the SOCKS proxy in WinGate is configured to accept connections on.

6. Do not make any other proxy entries as MSIE will then use the SOCKS proxy for the remaining services.

This shows the completed Proxy setup on the Connection tab