[comm] [webadmin] Revisions to Proxy page

[Jeff Mangum]

Hi Gene,

On 7/9/07 6:23 PM, Gene Runion wrote:
> Certainly the fees the library is paying requires serious investigation.
> The minuses of the proxy
>  - generates help desk tickets, just turn it off
>   
Perhaps.  If switching proxies is as slick in IE and Safari as it is in 
Firefox, then this might be a solution.
>  - 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.
>   
If the webvpn is unchanged from the last time I tried it (several months 
ago), it is a non-starter.  Poor rendering of most pages in Firefox, and 
slow as molasses.
> I still have not heard what the pricing structure is for the library
> services.
>   
In fact, this is the real question.  Need to find out from Marsha 
exactly what the pricing structure looks like.

-- Jeff
> -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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