[comm] Revisions to Proxy page

[Gene Runion]

Certainly the fees the library is paying requires serious investigation.
The minuses of the proxy
 - generates help desk tickets, just turn it off
 - doesn't easily solve assess when a person isn't directly connected to
our network, the WEB VPN works pretty good for this.  Replacing the
existing VPN, which is now obsolete, may be in order.

I still have not heard what the pricing structure is for the library
services.

-Gene


> -----Original Message-----
> From: comm-bounces at donar.cv.nrao.edu [mailto:comm-
> bounces at donar.cv.nrao.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick P Murphy
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 5:08 PM
> To: webadmin at nrao.edu; comm at nrao.edu
> Subject: [comm] Revisions to Proxy page
> 
> I got fed up with the state of the GoldBook/Web documentation on the
> proxy <http://www.nrao.edu/internal/web/proxy.shtml> so I added
> SwitchProxy to it.  I haven't had time yet to document the more
in-depth
> use of it, e.g. how I did the ssh tunnel one (or the associated
"tunnel"
> shell script).
> 
> The impetus for this was the issues with the Library needing "one IP
> address" and the complaints about the proxy being hard to use.  Well,
> with Firefox/SwitchProxy, it ain't hard to use once it's set up (and
> it's not hard to set up either).  And I'd guesstimate[*] most of the
> target audience for Library Services such as Marsha has mentioned will
> have Firefox as their browser.
> 
> Comments/suggestions for improvement of the doc solicited.  I asked
Jeff
> if he can grab some screen shots of the config screen for Safari; he
> foolishly said yes :-)
> 
>  - Pat
> 
> [*] I've been watching stats on the web server daily for some time now
>     via my webstats script.  This now gives a nice breakdown of
browser
>     type and percentage of use.  I'm seeing roughly 50% Firefox, 5%
>     Mozilla (includes Netscape), 5% Safari, and 40% IE roughly
>     speaking.  The target audience for those services is going to be
>     strongly biased towards Scientists and Engineers; former will use
>     Firefox or Safari almost certainly; latter will use IE or maybe
>     Firefox.
> 
> 
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