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Setting up your Server, Browser and HTML code for Web Friends

Web Server

You may need to have your Service Provider set this up for you. In some case it may already be setup.

1. Add the Cu-SeeMe mime type to your global types file.
2. Note that you could put a line like:AddType application/x-cu-seeme cu cs to a .htaccess file in your public-web or VD directory to enable the mime types.
3. Configure your http daemon. Use the configuration directory located under the top-level httpd directory, usually called conf. Locate the file: mime.types and add the following line:
   • application/x-cu-seeme cu csm
4. Restart the http daemon. This tells the http daemon that if you get a file with either the cu or csm extension, that it is type x-cu-seeme.
5. When your browser downloads a .cu or .csm file, it is informed by the http daemon that it is an x-cu-seeme file. Your browser must know how to launch Enhanced CU-SeeMe when it receives such a file. Typically, your browser will prompt you for an executable to launch for this type.
6. If your browser does not do this automatically, you must add the .cu and .csm file types (typically in a Preferences or Options dialog box). Specify the content mime type as application/x-cu-seeme, and then open the file with cuseeme. (See instructions below)

Setting up Enhanced CU-SeeMe in a Web Browser

This tells the browser what to do with file types it recieves such as the *.cu file we created

1. Locate the dialog box to add new file types in your browser, typically in a preferences dialog box. For example, in Netscape, choose Preferences from the Options menu, then select Helper Applications.
2. Specify the mime type: application
3. Specify the mime subtype: x-cu-seeme.
4. Specify the file extensions .cu and .csm.
5. Specify Enhanced CU-SeeMe as the application.
6. Windows: Make sure Enhanced CU-SeeMe is in your path, or specify the full pathname for the cuseeme executable.
7. Set the action to launch the application.

Entering File Into HTML Code

You would add a hyperlink somewhere on your page that was a link to a *.cu file. (i.e. http://www.hdata.com/wf/file.cu) When the browser gets the file it automatically launches the CU-SeeMee application, however, some browsers will always prompt the user "open" or "save to disk". In either case, the user will choose "open file" and the CU-SeeMe application will launch and try to make a connection to the IP specified in the *.cu file we created.

Setting up your *.cu file for Web Friends

1. Create a file with a .cu or .csm extension which contains the following parameters, each on it's own line as shown below:
   • ip_address conference_id file_options
   • Where:
     1. * ip_address: The IP address of the Reflector or Enhanced CU-SeeMe host that you would like to connect to using Enhanced CU-SeeMe (for example, 192.233.34.5)
     2. * conference_id: The conference ID used by the Reflector (usually 0, unless this is a closed conference)
     3. * file_options: A subset of configuration items normally found in your Preferences file, which would override the defaults found in the Preferences file.
     4. The following file options are available. Note, you must include the section headers.
   • [Settings] Max Windows=n (n is the number of windows you want visible on the screen at any given time).
   • [Flow Control] MaxCap=n (n is the maximum sending rate) MinCap=n (n is the minimum sending rate) UseFlowControl=Yes (This can be Yes or No)
   • [Connect Options] IWillSendVideo=Yes/No (Do you want to send video?) IWillRecvVideo=Yes/No (Do you want to receive video?) IWillSendAudio=Yes/No (Do you want to send audio?) IWillRecvAudio=Yes/No (Do you want to receive audio?)
   • [Audio Settings] Want Lurkers=Yes/No (Do you want to hear audio from lurkers?) Full Duplex=Yes/No (If your audio card supports it, do you want to operate in full-duplex mode?)

Here's an example file (which you can call wpine.cu) which automatically connects to White Pine Software's Reflector:

192.233.34.5

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