How to improve speed accessing on many popular web sites working at SISSA

We suggest to set web SISSA proxy server on your browser using your laptop or workstation at SISSA. This setting can improve transfer speed and response time when accessing many popular web sites and reduce the total traffic on SISSA external link.
This is achieved keeping a local copy of frequently visited pages. The local copy is validated before being served to the client, i.e. compared to a set of refresh patterns to ensure the information are still up-to-date, so users don't have to worry about being served stale web contents.

You can configure your browser to use the proxy with the automatic configuration script provided at: http://proxy.sissa.it/proxy.pac

REMEMBER: Please remove SISSA proxy setting when you use your laptop OUTSIDE SISSA, otherwise you will not be able to use your browser. \\

Using some SISSA web pages you can see a warning? For more information go to: Web warnings... how to solve...
The problem of these warnings will be solved installing the SISSA Root Certificate.

• internet explorer6.x
• internet explorer7.x
• firefox2.0-3.0 for windows
• firefox2.0-3.0 for mac
• firefox2.0-3.0 for linux
• safari for macosx

Download Windows 2000/XP setup wizards for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

• 1) Open Tools → Preferences
• 2) Select the Advanced tab → Network
• 3) Select the Proxy servers button
• 4) Select Use automatic proxy configuration
• 5) Fill in the URL: http://proxy.sissa.it/proxy.pac
• 6) Click on OK, OK

• 1) Open Settings → Configure Konqueror → Proxy
• 2) Select Use the following proxy configuration URL
• 3) Fill in the URL: http://proxy.sissa.it/proxy.pac
• 4) Click on OK

BASH users can put this line into .bashrc file:

export http_proxy="http://proxy.sissa.it:3128/"

TCSH users can put this line into .tcshrc file:

setenv http_proxy "http://proxy.sissa.it:3128/"