If you access the Internet through a company network, you can select internal servers to act as proxies (or gateways) for Internet access through your network firewall. Using proxies can also improve performance and reduce network traffic.

To ignore your proxies when connecting to particular hosts, enter the full host names in the Don't Proxy field, separated by spaces or carriage returns. Designate an entire domain by starting the name with a period (e.g. .mycompany.com).