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| SmartWhois Help Documentation |
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On many corporate networks, Internet access is restricted due to security or other reasons. If the computer running SmartWhois does not have a direct Internet access, you need to configure SmartWhois proxy settings in order to perform whois queries. SmartWhois allows you to use two different proxy server types: SOCKS and HTTP/HTTPS. You should choose the appropriate type of proxy server depending on your network setup. Please contact your network administrator for the information about which proxy server is available on your network. If you have a SOCKS proxy available, you need to configure SOCKS proxy server settings in SmartWhois. If you access the Internet through HTTP/HTTPS proxy (usually in LANs where only the HTTP protocol is allowed), please set the respective HTTP/HTTPS proxy server settings. SmartWhois can only work through proxies that support the CONNECT request method. Please note that even if the HTTP proxy server your company uses for the Internet access supports the CONNECT request method, it must be enabled by the network administrator as this option is often disabled by default. For more information on the HTTP protocol, please refer to RFC 2616: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html If you are using a SOCKS proxy server for accessing the Internet, please click Settings => Options, select the Firewall page, and then select the Use SOCKS proxy option. Click on the Configure button to have the settings page displayed: Host – proxy server host name or IP address. Port – proxy server port number that is used for the SOCKS protocol. SOCKS version – SOCKS protocol version supported by the server (usually 5). SmartWhois can access the Internet through firewalls using the SOCKS5 protocol with or without authentication. Please check the User authentication box and enter your user ID and password in the corresponding fields if the SOCKS server requires user authentication. Once you've configured the server settings, close the dialog and click Test to test the connection. SmartWhois will then send a query to a whois server. The test is passed when a connection with a whois server is established and a valid reply from the server is received. If you are using HTTP/HTTPS proxy for Internet access, select the Use HTTP or HTTPS proxy option. Click on the Configure button to have the settings page displayed: Host – proxy server host name or IP address. Port – proxy server port number that is used for HTTP/HTTPS protocols. User-Agent – this option is used by the proxy server for identifying the client application. Usually you don't need to change this field, unless your LAN environment allows only specific Internet applications to access the Internet. SmartWhois can access the Internet through proxy servers using the HTTP/HTTPS protocols with or without authentication. Please check the User authentication box and enter your user ID and password in the corresponding fields if the proxy server requires user authentication. Once you've configured the server settings, close the dialog and click Test to test the connection. SmartWhois will then send a query to a whois server. The test is passed when a connection with a whois server is established and a valid reply from the server is received. If you are behind a firewall, you may also want to check the Don't resolve hostnames locally box. This is useful when your computer doesn't have access to a DNS server. If this box is checked, SmartWhois will not try to resolve the whois server addresses locally. Rather, the program will pass them to the proxy server for resolving. The only limitation for computers that don't have access to a DNS server is that SmartWhois will be able to process only IP address and domain queries, but not hostname queries. |
