Proxy Servers

this page / section pertains to brightauthor classic , our legacy app brightauthor\ connected is our latest app for managing content and players development of brightauthor classic has largely ceased and the app will eventually be deprecated and replaced with brightauthor\ connected to configure brightsign players to connect through a proxy server using {{brightauthor classic}} , set up the server during the player setup process (in tools > setup a unit > advanced network setup ) if you need to provide a user name and password for the proxy, you can enter it using this format \<user name> \<password>@\<proxy server address> (for example, admin\ root\@myproxy com ) if the password contains a special character (for example, p\@ssword), validation will fail use the ascii equivalent for the special character instead (for example, p%40ssword) see https //www urlencoder org/ https //www urlencoder org/ for ascii conversions a proxy server can also be set manually using a script