The Chat applet works through any SOCKS proxy server. Many popular firewalls contain a SOCKS server, such as Netscape's Proxy Server, NEC's PrivateNet, IBM's Secure Network Gateway, Aventail's MobileVPN and PartnerVPN, and Deerfield's WinGate.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 has SOCKS support for Java applets built into the browser. To enable the support for Internet Explorer 4.0 on Windows 95, 98, or NT 4.0, do the following:
Using Internet Explorer 4.0 on the Macintosh, do the following:
http://
.
For Netscape Communicator, Netscape Navigator, and older versions of Internet Explorer, you can download and install Hummingbird's free SOCKS client in order to allow Java applets to safely traverse the SOCKS server on your firewall. Aventail Corporation provides a commercial version of their automatic SOCKS client program, called AutoSOCKS.
For more information on SOCKS, please see the SOCKS Proxy Protocol page.