Viewing Output and Help in the SAS Remote Browser

What Is Remote Browsing?

Remote browsing enables you to view the following type of documents in the Web browser on your local computer:

SAS documentation
URLs that are specified in the WBROWSE command
ODS HTML, PDF, and RTF output

In the past, all Web documentation was displayed by executing a Netscape browser on the SAS server. By displaying this documentation locally with remote browsing, you have faster access to the documentation and you free up resources on the SAS server that were used by Netscape.

A small software agent called the remote browser server runs on your local computer. When SAS needs to display browser contents, SAS connects to the remote browser server and sends to the remote browser server the URL that references the content. The remote browser server then passes the URL to your browser for display. If the remote browser server is not running on your computer, SAS displays a dialog box that contains the URL that you need to use to download the remote browser server.

Three system options are provided to configure remote browsing: HELPBROWSER=, HELPHOST=, and HELPPORT=. These options specify the remote browser or the SAS browser, and the host name and port number of the local computer where the content is to be displayed. In most cases, these options do not need to be set.

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