Technical Specifications

System Administrators for Interactive Textbooks

Access
Cookies
Filtering Software
IP Addresses
Security
System Requirements
Web Proxy Server

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Access

Access to some sections of the Pearson SuccessNet site is restricted to those Users holding current, valid user identifications and passwords. The School controls, manages and administers the grant of such user identifications and passwords. The School warrants that any such user identifications and passwords shall be kept in a safe and secure place and will be distributed only to students of such School. Pearson or the School may terminate access to any User at any time for any reason without notice. User identifications and passwords are personal and may not be shared or transferred by any User. User identifications and passwords must be kept confidential. It is important that you exit under your user identification and password at the end of each session. The School has contracted with Pearson to bring you the Pearson SuccessNet site. Accordingly, your ability to access the site (including the expiration date of your user identification and password) is strictly controlled by the School and may depend largely on the terms of the deal between the School and Pearson. Please ask your School for information regarding the expiration of your user identification and password.

Cookies

The use of cookies is common in the Internet industry. Cookies are small text files that a Web site transfers to your computer's browser. Cookie technology tells the Web site non-personally identifiable information, but does identify your computer, browser and Internet specifications. The Pearson SuccessNet site uses cookies to measure traffic patterns, personalize content and control security.

Filtering Software

The iText server application has been tested on an ISA 2000 Proxy Server with N2H2 packet filtering software, across the range of three permission or security levels within the software, including maximum (the most stringent), hitting Prentice Halls' Pearson SuccessNet site (http://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com/). Access to the site was tested on various workstations/operating systems, including: Mac OS 8.6, Mac OS 9, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows 2000.

IP Addresses

An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider. The Pearson SuccessNet site may collect IP addresses, the associated URLs, domain types, the browser type used to access the Site, the country, state and telephone area code where the users' Internet service provider's servers are located, the pages of the Pearson SuccessNet site that users viewed during their visit and any search terms entered on the Site. Collection of IP addresses is generally for system administration purposes, to gather broad demographic information, to monitor the level of activity on the Site and for security reasons. Personally identifiable information may be linked to IP addresses to protect the security or integrity of the Site.

Security

The Pearson SuccessNet site uses industry standard SSL-encryption to protect user information and uses a secure connection to our servers, which are protected by firewalls to prevent unauthorized break-ins. The Pearson SuccessNet site is protected by the Verisign Security Certificate and all log-in data is encrypted for transmission. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet is guaranteed completely secure. Given the inherent operation and structure of the Internet, all transmissions are done at your own risk.

System Requirements

Prentice Hall Online products require:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (preferred browser)
Javascript and Cookies enabled

To view many supplementary materials, the following plug-ins are necessary:

• Flash 8
• Shockwave Player 10
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 7
• QuickTime 7

Note: When first launching an interactivity, you might receive a message stating that you need to download the PrintOMatic component from Electronic Ink. If you click "install," the component will download automatically. PrintOmatic is not required to view and use interactivities online; it is required to print them.

Web Proxy Server

What is a Web Proxy Server?
A Web proxy server stands between the user's browser and the outside world of the Web. It both enables and restricts access to the World Wide Web, allowing users behind a firewall to have access to the Internet and also preventing access to specified sites. Web proxy servers improve performance for groups of users and filter requests to ensure a secure environment.

Improved performance:
A Web proxy server can store or "cache" requests, so that if a request is made more than once, the Web proxy server can display the same results without running the same query again on the Web. This can save a considerable amount of time for the user. If documents are cached by the Web proxy server, internal users can access this cache of documents even if a Web server or external server is down.

Filtering requests:
A Web proxy server filters requests by intercepting requests going out from behind a firewall. By reviewing each request, the Web proxy server can ensure that individual users do not access sites that are restricted. If a company or school creates a list of sites to which it does not want its users to gain access, the proxy server will return a message of 'invalid' or 'access denied,' should a user try to access one of these sites. A proxy server, therefore, monitors all traffic, both in and out, of a specified group of users and helps prevent access to undesirable sites.

If you are experiencing technical difficulties with your Web proxy server, please consult the manuals that came with both your hardware and software.

The IP address for Pearson SuccessNet is: 165.193.128.192

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