SonicWALL manual SonicWALL SSL VPN 5.0 User Guide

Using Virtual Assist

•Proxy Settings - Allows users to configure a Proxy server to access the SSL-VPN appliance. There are three options for configuring proxy settings.

–Automatically detect settings - To use this setting, the proxy server must support Web Proxy Auto Discovery Protocol (WPAD)), which can push the proxy settings script to the client automatically.

–Use automatic configuration script - If you know the location of the proxy settings script, select this option and enter the URL of the scrip in the Address field.

–Use proxy server - Select this option to enter the Address and Port of the proxy server. Optionally, you can enter an IP address or domain in the BypassProxy field to allow direct connections to those addresses that bypass the proxy server. If required, enter a User name and Password for the proxy server. If the proxy server requires a username and password, but you do not specify them in the Properties window, a NetExtender pop-up window will prompt you to enter them when you first connect.

–Optionally, you can click the Internet Explorer proxy settings button to open Internet Explorer’s proxy settings page.

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