User's Manual

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3 Requirements
To work properly the WebIdentity product requires the processing environment to meet some minimum requisites in
terms of installed hardware and software. The requisites are divided into two distinct parts concerning the client and the
server.
3.1 Client
With Microsoft Windows the client component is realized with an ActiveX for Windows Explorer and with a Plug-In
for Mozilla Firefox.
This is the list of environments supported by the software 5.0 version:
• Operating system
o Windows 98SE/ME
o Windows 2000
o Windows XP 32 bit
o Windows Vista 32 bit
• Web Browser
o Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0
o Netscape 8.1.3 or higher
o Mozilla 1.7.13 or higher
o Firefox 2.0 or higher
WebIdentityDL also works on XP 64 bit and Vista 64 bit (on AMD64 architecture) with 32 bit browsers.
As far as Linux and Mac OS are concerned a future release for supporting WebIdentityDL within such environments is
planned for.
If only WebIdentity3P is used it is possible to adopt the previous 4.0 version of the software that is supported also by
Linux and Mac OS X.
The 4.0 version supports the following environments:
• Architecture
o i386 hardware (Microsoft Windows, Linux)
o PowerPC G3/G4/G5 (Mac OS X)
• Operating system
o Microsoft Windows 98SE/ME/NT4/2000/XP
o Linux (kernel 2.4 or higher)
o Mac OS X
• Browser web
o Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher for Windows
o Netscape 6.1 or higher for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
o Mozilla 1.6 or higher for per Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
o Firefox 0.7 or higher for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
o Camino 0.8 or higher for Mac OS X
Version 4.0 does not support WebIdentityDL
3.2 Server
The 5.0 version of the WebIdentity software provides a COM interface for Windows 32 bit and 64 bit.
At some future date a Java class will also be released for non-Microsoft platforms and for environments supporting Java
libraries.
If only WebIdentity3P is used it is possible to adopt the previous 4.0 version of the software that also contains the
server’s Java library.