title: How to setup Selenium RC to test any website on the internet?
body: <p>I'm new in using Selenium.</p>
  
  <p>Selenium IDE is a user-friendly firefox plugin. I have no problem in using it. However, I found that the documentation for other Selenium tools such as Selenium RC and Selenium Core is quite confusing for beginners. It seems that the author assume that the readers already have deep knowledge in using these tools.</p>
  
  <p>For example, when I try to figure out how to setup Selenium RC to test a webserver, the only diagram i can find from the Selenium website is this:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.sparksupport.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/selenium-rc.png" rel="noreferrer">http://www.sparksupport.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/selenium-rc.png</a></p>
  
  <p>From this diagram, i can't even see which one is the webserver under test and where should i install the Selenium components.</p>
  
  <p>At first I thought this diagram is a bit weird and i should be able to get a better diagram from other websites. I was surprised to find that almost all Selenium RC setup diagram on the internet are similar to this diagram (clones). No one has ever attempted to create a different diagram or give more description for Selenium RC setup.</p>
  
  <p>Appreciate if anyone can give me guidance on how to setup Selenium RC. The things that i want to know are:</p>
  
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  <li>Can i use Selenium RC to test any website on the Internet?</li>
  <li>How to setup Selenium RC?</li>
  <li>Is my current setup correct? My current setup is like this: In a LAN network which has access to the Internet, I have 3 servers. Server-1 comes with IE8, Server-2 comes with Firefox 3.6. Server-3 will be used as the Selenium RC server. So, Selenium RC in server-3 will remotely control server-1 and server-2 to start up IE and FF. Server-1 and 2 will use server-3 as the HTTP proxy to connect to any webserver on the Internet. If I want to test a website such as yahoo.com, I can write Selenium script and let it run in Server-3 to control the IE and FF in server-1 and 2.</li>
  </ol>