Netscape Navigator

This section contains information for how to configure WinGate and Netscape Navigator 3 or 4 to work with each other for WWW Browsing. There are other help topics which cover the setting up of WinGate and Netscape for Netscape Mail, and Netscape News

WinGate Setup

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

SOCKS server, and you have DNS working on your LAN

Netscape Setup

1. From the Navigator 3 Menu bar, choose the Options menu, and select Network Preferences to bring up the Preferences dialog box. Or, in Navigator 4, select Edit - Preferences - Network.

2. Select the Proxies tab. Enable the Manual Proxy Configuration option and hit the View button. This brings up the Manual Proxy Configuration dialog box.

3. Under HTTP Proxy, FTP Proxy and Secure Proxy: enter wingate. Under Port: enter the port number the WWW proxy in WinGate is configured to accept connections on. This is usually 80.

4. Under SOCKS Host: enter wingate. Under Port: enter the port number the SOCKS proxy in WinGate is configured to accept connections on.

5. Do not make any other proxy entries. Netscape uses the SOCKS proxy only if there is no specific proxy given for a particular protocol. If you put an entry in for any of these other protocols, then Netscape will not work for those protocols.

This is how the proxies setup screen will look when completed.