Scan Settings: Proxy

To access this feature, click the Edit menu and select Default Scan Settings or Current Scan Settings. Then, in the Scan Settings category, select Proxy.

Options

The Proxy options are described in the following table.

Option Description

Direct Connection (proxy disabled)

Select this option if you are not using a proxy server.

Auto detect proxy settings

Use the Web Proxy Autodiscovery (WPAD) protocol to locate a proxy autoconfig file and configure the browser's Web proxy settings.

Use System proxy settings

Import your proxy server information from the local machine.

Use Firefox proxy settings

Import your proxy server information from Firefox.

Note: Electing to use Firefox proxy settings does not guarantee that you will access the Internet through a proxy server. If the Firefox browser connection settings are configured for "No proxy," then a proxy will not be used.

Configure proxy using a PAC file URL

 Load proxy settings from a Proxy Automatic Configuration (PAC) file in the location you specify in the URL box.

Explicitly configure proxy

Configure a proxy by entering the requested information:

  1. In the Server box, type the URL or IP address of your proxy server, followed (in the Port box) by the port number (for example, 8080).

  2. Select a protocol Type for handling TCP traffic through a proxy server: SOCKS4, SOCKS5, or standard.

  3. If authentication is required, select a type from the Authentication list:

    • Automatic

      Note: Automatic detection slows the scanning process. If you know and specify one of the other authentication methods, scanning performance is noticeably improved.

    • Digest

    • HTTP Basic

    • Kerberos

    • Negotiate

    • NT LAN Manager (NTLM)

  4. If your proxy server requires authentication, enter the qualifying user name and password.

  5. If you do not need to use a proxy server to access certain IP addresses (such as internal testing sites), enter the addresses or URLs in the Bypass Proxy For box. Use commas to separate entries.

Specify Alternative Proxy for HTTPS

 For proxy servers accepting HTTPS connections, select Specify Alternative Proxy for HTTPS and provide the requested information.

See Also

Scan Settings: Allowed Hosts

Scan Settings: Authentication

Scan Settings: Cookies/Headers

Scan Settings: Custom Parameters

Scan Settings: File Not Found

Scan Settings: Filters

Scan Settings: General

Scan Settings: HTTP Parsing

Scan Settings: JavaScript

Scan Settings: Method

Scan Settings: Policy

Scan Settings: Requestor

Scan Settings: Session Exclusions

Scan Settings: User Agent