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
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/"