Frankfurt, 3/11/96
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Visual Web V1.0 - last minute remarks

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Please user our WWW server for even newer infos 

on Visual Web:

http://www.isg.de/visualweb/

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1. Thank you for purchasing Visual Web V1.0.  Before starting Visual Web, please be aware of the following items: 

- Visual Web 1.0 is a 32-bit application, running under Windows 95 und Windows NT. Visual Web does NOT run under Windows 3.x, not even if the 32 bit upgrade kit is used.
 
- Visual Web connects to the Internet using your operating system's standard software or of a dialer. As a true 32 bit application it can only run with a true 32 bit WSOCK32.DLL e.g. with the original file of your operating system. 

The following connections to the internet are supported:

- 32 bit WSOCK32.DLL and dialer
- 32 bit TCP/IP connection


WARNING:
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Some of the Internet connections available in the market use the 16 bit WINSOCK.DLL even under Windows 95 or Windows NT. Example: the standard versions of CompuServe, AOL etc. If you cannot connect to the Internet using Visual Web, please check that you are using 32 bit access. If not so, please contact your Internet provider and ask him how to work with 32 bit applications. In addition, you may be able to profit from the infos we regularly publish on Visual Web's home page.

REMARK: TO CALL WWW PAGES CONTAINING JAVA APPLETS, YOU NEED 32 BIT ACCESS ANYWAY, EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT USING VISUAL WEB.



2. Visual Web V1.0 consists of two program modules:

- The Visual Web user interface, providing the graphical of WWW servers
- The Visual Web Offline-Proxy to store theWWW pages read by Visual Web

Please read the online help and the Offline-Proxy's HTML documentation to learn more about these modules. Item 5, below, provides further information.


3. The Offline-Proxy is automatically loaded together with Visual Web. All the WWW pages analyzed by Visual Web are automatically stored are automatically stored on your hard disk in the cache directory of the proxy server.


4. For use of the Offline Proxy Server with your browser without running Visual Web (e.g. when reading the web pages offline), it must be running, and configured in your browser: 

- Run the OPROXY.EXE (in your Visual Web) directory
- Run your browser
- Change your browser's configuration so that it can access the Visual Web Proxy Server. The name of the Proxy Server is '127.0.0.1', its port address is '8080'. 


5. After these changes you can use your browser as you are used to. You need not undo the changes to browse offline - you merely need to communicate to the Proxy Server that you want to continue working offline. 

- You reach the Proxy Server under http://offline.proxy.server
- On the options page, switch from 'Offline' to 'Online' or vice versa.

Under http://offline.proxy.server you can also find additional help texts about the Proxy Server 


6. If you need additional help, use your browser to go to the Visual Web's home page http://www.isg.de/visualweb. There, you can access up-to-date online help as well as our technical support. 


7. Visual Web - Frequently asked questions

How do I configure Visual Web to work with Microsoft's Internet Explorer?

Visual Web is a 32 bit application! Therefore, you need the Windows 95- or the
Windows NT version of the Internet Explorer!

Windows NT:

Use the menu command "View / Set Proxy Server" to enter the settings 127.0.0.1
and 8080 into the Internet Explorer. Switch off the cache options with "View /
Cache Settings". We recommend leaving the "Startup Home Page" field of "View /
Options" blank.

Windows 95:

Click on the "Desktop" icon of Win95, then on "Control Panel", then on
"Internet". In the dialog that appears, you can find two pages of options,
"AutoDial" and "Advanced". You will find the proxy settings on the "Advanced"
page. Enter "127.0.0.1:8080".

Visual Web doesn't connect to the Internet!

Many online services provide their own programs to establish an Internet
connection. To date, most of these software products use 16 bit technology only,
e.g. Quarterdeck Winsock, Trumpet Winsock, CompuServe Internet Dialer, America
Online AOL. Such an Internet dialer can work with all 16 bit Internet
applications, yet 32 bit applications do not work! For example, you cannot use a
Java-compatible browser over a 16 bit connection!

However, most providers offer a way to use the features of Windows 95 to gain 32
bit access to the Net. A first access using this approach may be a little
complicated, but everyone can do it. Please contact your Internet provider (two
terms regarding this subject are PPP and SLIP).

Where do I find configuration instructions for my Internet provider?

* CompuServe: GO INETRESOURCES
* AOL, Quarterdeck, Trumpet: currently, there is no direct way, but you can 
  take a detour using a shareware program, see 
  http://users/aol.com/friedv

Whenever the Offline Proxy is started, Wndows 95 tries to establish a connection
to the Internet!

To make Windows 95 stop displaying an Internet connection dialog each time you
stare the Offline Proxy, you have to switch off the "Auto-Dial" setting, which
you can reach via "Desktop", "Control Panel", "Internet".

It is also possible that your browser is set to retrieve a home page from the
Net at start-up time. If this page is not stored in the OProxy, a connection is
required. It is possible to disable this in your browser:

Netscape:

The default settings of Netscape make it load Netscape's homepage. To disable
that, call Netscape's "Options / General Preferences" menu command, then select
"Appearance" on the page that appears. In the middle of the next page there is a
"Start With: Blank Page or Home Page Location" selector. Select "Blank Page"
here and push OK. Now go to the "Options" menu and select "Save Options".

Microsoft Internet Explorer:

You cannot leave the startup page blank when using Microsoft's Internet Explorer,
but you can use the "Options" menu to make it access the OProxy's internal page
http://offline.proxy.server instead, which does not have to be downloaded from
the Internet.

Can I tune the Offline Proxy's performance?

Netscape doesn't need to locally cache data it has read from the Net - the
OProxy does this already. Thus, you should call "Options / Network Preferences",
select the  "Cache "tab and set "Memory Cache" and "Disk Cache" to zero.

How do I use the Offline Proxy Server?

The OProxy works in two modes: in online mode, it reads data from the Internet,
and in offline mode, where only documents already stored in the OProxy can be
retrieved. If other pages are requested, an error message is returned.

Visual Web communicates with the OProxy, setting it to online mode when
retrieving data from the Web and resetting it to offline afterwards, If you use
your browser to browse the pages retrieved by Visual Web beforehand, you have to
keep your system from going online (please refer to the following paragraphs).

First and foremost, you have to set your browser to 127.0.0.1:8080 (entry fields
"Hostname": 127.0.0.1, "Port": 8080) using its HTTP proxy settings. After doing
that, the browser should be re-started.

How do I configure the Offline-Proxy?

Select the address http://offline.proxy.server in your web browser. The Offline-
Proxy now shows a menu page listing the documents available from it. Most
important regarding Visual Web and the Offline Proxy Server, the Link "Options"
leads to an options page. We recommend bookmarking this page using the menu
command "Bookmarks / Add Bookmark".

Just try the offline configuration described above and set "Mode" to "Offline".
Afterwards, enter an internet address you haven't accessed with the proxy yet,
e.g. http://www.isg.de/OEW/custhist.htm. Now your browser shows an OProxy-
generated HTML page informing you that this URL is not stored offline. Did you
notice? Your browser didn't try to establish an Internet connection!



We wish you successful hours using Visual Web, ... and low phone and provider bills.

Yours, Team Visual Web
