Proxy Setup

FliteStar has the ability to work with standard proxy server configurations including HTTP, HTTP Tunneling, SOCKS V4, and SOCKS V5. Depending on your firewall, a proxy setup might be required to activate your program electronically and to electronically download FliteStar updates.

Contact your System Administrator if you are unsure of the configuration.

If you have a firewall, make sure the IP addresses and ports are open on your firewall. If they are blocked on your firewall, you still might not be able to connect even after setting up the proxy server.

To set up proxy server support in FliteStar, click the Proxy Configuration button in the Activation Wizard, or click Connection > Proxy Setup within FliteStar. The Proxy Configuration dialog box appears.

To set up proxy connections:

1. Click New.

2. Select a proxy type.

3. In the Proxy Host field, enter the address, given by your System Administration, where your proxy is located on your network, followed by a colon and the port it resides on. This is where FliteStar will send communication to be "proxied" to the Internet. It should look something similar to proxy.jeppesen.com:8080 where the proxy server is at proxy.jeppesen.com through port 8080.

4. In the Port(s) field, enter the ports you want the data sent to on the proxy server. If this is an HTTP proxy, you can enter 80. All port 80 requests will then be sent to the proxy server. If it is a SOCKS proxy and handles other communication besides HTTP (or you are using SSL) you might need to enter more than one proxy setup.

5. Enter the User Name and Password only if the proxy server requires authentication (this is fairly uncommon).

6. Select the check box associated with the desired configuration on the right-hand side of the dialog box.

7. Click Close.

If you are using a SOCKS proxy server that proxies all communication to the Internet:

1. Click New.

2. Select the SOCKS proxy type.

3. Enter the address:port where the SOCKS proxy resides on your network.

4. Enter the port ranging from 1-9999.

5. Select the check box associated with the desired configuration on the right-hand side of the dialog box.

6. Click Close.

FliteStar will start with the first proxy server entry in the list and apply it to all communications through the port entered, so enter the more specific ports first. If you create more than one proxy entry, FliteStar looks at each entry and uses the selected protocol for all communications through the entered port.

View examples

The first entry tells FliteStar to send all communication going out on port 80 using an HTTP protocol through the proxy server at proxy.jeppesen.net port 8080.

The second entry tells FliteStar to send all communications going out on all other ports (1-1999) using SOCKS Version 4 protocol through a proxy server at proxy.jepp.net port 890.