Proxy Configuration
The proxy configuration allows setting a customized proxy address which will be used by the EFSA Catalogues browser to open internet connections. Note that by default the tool does not use any proxy, therefore if a proxy is indeed present in your network, you will receive a connection error, even if your machine is correctly connected to internet. In this case the proxy configuration is needed.
The proxy host name and port can be set in the EFSA-catalogues-browser-installer-win-64\config\proxyConfig.xml file, which is contained in the directory where the application was installed (EFSA-TSE-data-submission-tool-installer-win-32\config\proxyConfig.xml for 32-bit versions).
Set the 'Proxy.Mode' entry to AUTO in order to let the tool to auto-identify the proxy settings available in your operating system (this operation is not always accessible due to antivirus restrictions). Please, note that in this case the remaining entries are ignored.
If your organisation is provided with a proxy connection then it is required to set the proxy manually:
- set the Proxy.Mode property to MANUAL
- put inside the Proxy.HostName property the host name or the IP address of your proxy
- put inside the Proxy.Port property the port which is listened by your proxy (in most of the cases this is 8080)
The final configuration should appear as the following:
<entry key="Proxy.Mode">MANUAL</entry>
<entry key="Proxy.HostName">your.proxy.hostname</entry>
<entry key="Proxy.Port">yourport</entry>
If the 'Proxy.Mode' property is set to NO_PROXY then the tool will not use any proxy. This is the default setting, but if you reached this page of the help is probably because of some connection issues!!
The very first time, it is necessary to configure the proxy by modifying the .xml file, in order to launch the tool correctly. However, once the application is launched, it is possible to configure the proxy also in the user interface. In particular, the proxy configuration can be accessed in the main menu by clicking the 'proxy' button, as shown in the following image:
In particular, this reflects the logic explained in the previous sections. For example, it is possible to set the proxy to manual setting in order to manually put the address and port of the proxy. Once the configuration is completed, press first Test connection to check if the application is able to connect or not and then Save the configuration.