Palestine Online's Proxy

Palestine Online offers high performance proxy caching for Web clients, It supports FTP, Gopher, and HTTP requests. This server speeds up accesses to Web pages as well as FTP sites. Palestine Online's proxy is powered by a Pentium 200 MMX server with 64MB memory and 4.3GB of disk space. The software it is running is SQUID Proxy Server.
Palestine Online users that want to use the proxy can set their options to point to proxy.p-ol.com.
In order to use Palestine Online's Proxy, go to Proxy Configuration, or Proxy Auto Configuration for more information about Netscape Navigator Proxy Auto Configuration.

What is a proxy?

A proxy server is a server that serves as a gateway between a local network and the outside world. The proxy server allows various services, mainly caching of the requests and a more secure means of obtaining documents.
A proxy cache is a way for a client to get remote pages via the server rather than direct from the original site. When the server gets a request, it either provides it from the cache, or gets it from the original site (while caching it here). Any future requests are answered from the local copy of this document, thus saving multiple page transfers from abroad. Each page is downloaded only once, thus saving time and network bandwidth for any future accesses to the cached documents. The cache will expire old entries, and will avoid caching results that are actually from programs (which may change each time called).

Why should I use a proxy?

The proxy cache will help you work faster and save bandwidth. If a certain document is in the cache, you wouldn't have to wait for it to be transferred from abroad (which saves you time, and helps make the connection faster for other users).
If the document you asked for is not in the cache, it would take exactly the same amount of time for you (it will be downloaded from abroad) - but it would save a lot of time for the next user (who might very well be you) that would download this document. You have an interest in the next user getting the document faster - the international line would be less crowded, and you would get your transfers faster.

Proxy Configuration

Configure your client to have proxy.p-ol.com:3128 as it's proxy server if you know of no better proxy. Individual universities may have local proxies which are to be preferred. Check with your local computer center for details:

See the following sections for specific configuration:

Netscape 2.0 and later versions Configuration

For Netscape (Unix, Mac and Windows) versions 2.X and 3.X
Select Network Preferences from the Options menu, then choose Proxies.
Options >> Network Preferences >> Proxies.

For Netscape Communicator 4.X
Select Preferences from the Edit menu, then choose Advanced and then Proxies.
Edit >> Preferences >> Advanced >> Proxies.

For Manual Proxy Configuration Setup, follow the following steps:

Manual Proxy Configuration
1. Select 'Manual Proxy Configuration' radio button.
2. Press on the 'View' option.
3. Change Proxies and Ports as follows:
FTP Proxy: proxy.p-ol.com Port:3128
HTTP Proxy: proxy.p-ol.com Port:3128
Gopher Proxy: proxy.p-ol.com Port:3128
4. Select 'OK' and then select Options - Save Options.

To avoid using the cache when not necessary users should exclude local pages. Set the "No proxy for" box to be: "p-ol.com".

Internet Explorer 3.0 and later

For Internet Explorer 3.0 and later, follow the following steps.

1. Select Options from the View menu.
2. Click on the Connection tab.
3. Choose the "Connect through Proxy Server" radio button and press the Proxy "Settings..."          button.
4. Chage Proxies and Ports as follows:
HTTP Proxy: proxy.p-ol.com Port:3128
FTP Proxy: proxy.p-ol.com Port:3128
Gopher Proxy: proxy.p-ol.com Port:3128
5. Select 'OK' and then select 'OK' again in the connection menu.

To avoid using the cache when not necessary users should exclude local pages. Set the "Exceptions" box to be "*.p-ol.com".
Select the "Do not use proxy server for local addresses" radio button.

Mosaic Configuration

On Mosaic for UNIX , please refer to Lynux configuration.

On Macintosh using Mac Mosaic, select Preferences - Gates:
Set WAIS Gateway: http://proxy.p-ol.com
Turn on 'Use CERN Proxy Service' and set
HTTP Gate: proxy.p-ol.com : 3128
FTP Gate: proxy.p-ol.com : 3128
Gopher Gate: proxy.p-ol.com :3128

On a PC using Mosaic for Windows, add the following to your MOSAIC.INI (probably found in C:\WINDOWS):
[Proxy Information]
http_proxy=http://proxy.p-ol.com :3128/
ftp_proxy=http://proxy.p-ol.com :3128/
gopher_proxy=http://proxy.p-ol.com :3128/

OS/2 WebExplorer Configuration

For the OS/2 WebExplorer:

1. Select Configure under the main menu.
2. Select Server.
3. Type in http://proxy.p-ol.com :3128/

Lynx and Mosaic for Unix Configuration

If you're using lynx or Mosaic in a Bourne shell set the following environment variables:

http_proxy="http://proxy.p-ol.com:3128"
ftp_proxy="$http_proxy"
export http_proxy ftp_proxy
no_proxy="p-ol.com"
export no_proxy
Note: not all versions of Mosaic and lynx obey no_proxy.

If you're using lynx or Mosaic in a csh or tcsh, set environment variables before starting the application as follows:

% setenv http_proxy http://proxy.p-ol.com :3128/
% setenv gopher_proxy http://proxy.p-ol.com :3128/
% setenv ftp_proxy http://proxy.p-ol.com :3128/

For Lynx you can also edit the lynx.cfg file to configure proxy usage. This has the added benefit of
causing all Lynx users on a system to access the proxy without making environment variable changes for each user. As the following:

http_proxy:http://proxy.p-ol.com :3128/
ftp_proxy:http://proxy.p-ol.com :3128/
gopher_proxy:http://proxy.p-ol.com :3128/

Netmanage Internet Chameleon WebSurfer configuration

Netmanage WebSurfer supports manual proxy configuration and exclusion lists for hosts or domains
that should not be fetched via proxy (this information is current as of WebSurfer 5.0).

Select Preferences from the Settings menu >> Click on the Proxies tab >> Select the Use Proxy options for HTTP, FTP, and gopher.
Fill out the following information:

http_proxy:http://proxy.p-ol.com :3128/
ftp_proxy:http://proxy.p-ol.com :3128/
gopher_proxy:http://proxy.p-ol.com :3128/

Auto Proxy Configuration

The Netscape Navigator allows automatic configuration of the proxy that should be used for its request. Such configuration is done by running a JavaScript function located in the URL specified to the Navigator.

For Automatic Proxy Configuration Setup, follow the following steps:

1. Select the Options >> Network Preferences >> Proxies menu
from the main menu in Netscape Navigator versions 2.X and 3.X
and Edit >> Preferences >> Advanced >> Proxies in Netscape Communicator 4.X
2. Select the "Automatic Proxy Configuration" radio button.
3. Enter the following URL in the URL area: http://proxy.p-ol.com/proxy.pac
4. Select 'OK'

For more questions about proxy configuration send email to
webmaster@p-ol.com