Environments that use an HTTP proxy server require additional
client configuration to enable URL access from the browser view in
a Tivoli® Enterprise Portal
workspace.
About this task
To enable the HTTP proxy server, complete these steps
on every computer where the Tivoli Enterprise
Portal client is used that also uses an HTTP proxy for the browser
view:
Procedure
- Open a workspace that contains a browser view or add a
browser view to the current workspace.
- In the browser view's address box, type: about:config
- In the filter field that appears at the top of the page,
enter the following to see the network proxy fields: network.proxy
- Out of the reduced set shown, the following three entries
are of interest. Double-click an entry or select it and press Enter
to modify its values:
- network.proxy.http
- Enter the DNS identifier or the IP address of the proxy host to
use for the HTTP protocol.
- network.proxy.http_port
- Enter 80, the default port number, or a different
number used by the proxy host.
- network.proxy.no_proxies_on
- Append any fully qualified host names or IP addresses that should
be accessed without the proxy. For example, this setting bypasses
the proxy server for any files on your local system and on the portal
server (myteps.uk.ibm.com) that are accessed from the browser view: localhost,127.0.0.1,
myteps.uk.ibm.com.
Results
After you click
OK on the property
edit panel, the change is saved on the Tivoli Enterprise Portal client.