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Choosing Internet connection settings

Director can connect to the Internet to import cast members and retrieve data. It also launches a browser to preview movies and open those Director Help topics that are on http://www.macromedia.com. Use settings in the Network Preferences dialog box to control how the connection works and to define a preferred browser.

To choose Internet connection settings:

1 | Choose File > Preferences > Network.
2 | To specify the browser to launch when a movie running in the authoring environment encounters the `gotoNetPage` Lingo command, enter the path to the browser in the Preferred Browser field.
| To locate the browser, click the Browse button.
3 | To enable or disable browser launching, select Launch When Needed.
4 | To specify the amount of space that Director can use to cache data from the Internet on your hard disk, enter a value in the Disk Cache Size field.
5 | To immediately empty the cache, click Clear.
6 | To specify how often cached data is compared to the same data on the server, choose a Check Documents option:
| Once Per Session checks for data revisions only once from the time you start to the time you quit the application. This option improves performance but may not always display the most current version of a page.
| Every Time checks for changes whenever you request a page. This option slows performance but assures you are always viewing the most current version of a page.
7 | To specify the configuration of your system's proxy server, choose a Proxies option.
| Browsers usually don't require proxy servers to interact with the network services of external sources, but in some network configurations, where a firewall blocks the connection between the browser software and a remote server, interaction with a proxy may be required.
| A firewall protects information in internal computer networks from external access, and in doing so, it may limit the ability to exchange information. To overcome this limitation, browser software can interact with proxy software. A proxy server interacts with the firewall and acts as a conduit, providing a specific connection for each network service protocol. If you are running browser software on an internal network from behind a firewall, you will need the name and associated port number for the server running proxy software for each network service.
| No Proxies specifies that you have a direct connection to the Internet.
| Manual Configuration controls proxy settings for your system. Enter the HTTP or FTP URL and port number.