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Problem: If you try to run FirstStop WebSearch™ and it seems not to search, find out if you use Microsoft Proxy Server. You may need to install Microsoft Proxy Client.

How Can I get Proxy Client?
Proxy Client is included with Microsoft Proxy Server in the Clients directory within the distribution.

For information about Proxy Server and to download the application, go to http://www.microsoft.com/proxy/

Installing Proxy Client

You can use the Microsoft WinSock Proxy Client application to enable or disable the WinSock Proxy client software, change the server from which client configuration files are downloaded, and download fresh copies of the client configuration files.

1. Locate the Microsoft Proxy Client software.
2. Install it on the client computer running FirstStop WebSearch™.

Proxy Client Control Panel Setup
(on client machine running FirstStop WebSearch™)
  1. Install Proxy Client.
  2. Open Win Sock Proxy Client in the Windows Control Panel.
  3. Enter the Server name of the Server running Proxy Server.
  4. Check the Enable WinSock Proxy Client; this will switch the WinSock calls from your local Internet connection to the Proxy Server.
  5. Press the Update Now button.
  6. After re-boot, the Proxy Client software will be active.

Settings on MS Proxy Server
  1. The Client computer must be registered on the Proxy Server.
  2. WinProxy Service must be running on the Proxy Server.
  3. Check with the Internet Service Manager.
  4. No additional Permission or configuration of the Service should be necessary.

Settings on FirstStop WebSearch™

1. Configure FirstStop WebSearch™ as if it were directly connected to the Internet. Do not use the Proxy Server setting.

Technical Notes: Proxy Client is an application wrapper developed by Microsoft. Proxy Client allows Windows 95/98/NT users to enable their WinSock applications to traverse a Microsoft Proxy server. Proxy Client does not require modifications to the WinSock applications or the WinSock stacks. On a Microsoft Proxy Server-enabled firewall, Proxy Client offers a client-only solution. Proxy Client is a series of Microsoft Windows DLLs that extends the functionality of the Windows Socket (WinSock) stack, allowing it to work successfully in the WinProxy environment. Proxy Client intercepts calls from WinSock applications to the Windows Socket (WinSock) stack and converts them to calls to the Microsoft Proxy Server. Proxy Client resides between ClockWatch and the WinSock stack. It converts socket calls to communicate with the WinProxy Server service running on the Microsoft Proxy Server.