Is there any way of configuring Eclipse IDE proxy settings via an autoproxy configuration script

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I am behind a firewall which uses autoproxy configuration script  I am able to browse the internet when I enable the autoproxy url in most browsers I use  IE 7  IE 8  FF  Chrome   For your reference to enable autoproxy url on Windows goto  Settings -  Control Panel -  Internet Options -  Connections -  Lan Settings -   Check  use automatic configuration scripts -  enter Address value as the autoproxy script url   The issue I am facing is  I have Eclipse IDE and I want to configure the proxy settings in Eclipse similar to browser settings but I am unable to  I could not find a setting in Eclipse or NetBeans 6 9 1 or IntelliJ Idea to solve this issue    I am using Maven2 integrated with these IDEs and no local repositories set up yet  Maven2 tries to install jars by downloading them from Internet but it cannot due to the proxy setting  I can manually download these libraries from Maven2 repositories and have an internal repository hosted using Artifactory or Nexus but I would like to know if there is any way I can do it from IDE itself     Thanks for your feedback  Please let me know if you have any questions

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Here is what I do   All of these instructions are based on my minimal experiences with working PACs  so YMMV   Download your pac file via your pac URL   It s plain text and should be easy to open in a text editor   Near the bottom  there s probably a section that says something like  return  PROXY w x y z a  where  w x y z  is an ip address or username and  a  is a port number     Write these down   In a recent version of eclipse     Go to Window -  Preferences -  General -  Network Connections  Change the provider to  Manual  Select the  HTTP  line and click the edit button Add the IP address and port number above to the http line If you have to authenticate to use the proxy     select  Requires Authentication  type in your username   Note that if your authentication is on a Windows domain  you might have to prepend the domain name and a backslash     like  MYDOMAIN MYUSERID Type in your password  Click OK Click Apply Click OK   At this point  you should be able to browse using the internal web browser  at least on http URLs    Good luck   Edit  Just so you know  it s WAY easier to use Nexus  one set of  lt mirror gt  tags and a single proxy setup  inside Nexus  to manage the proxy issues of Maven inside a firewall

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Download whatever configuration script that your browser is using   the script would have various host port configuration  based on the domain you want to connect   one of the host port is selected by the borwser   in the eclipse network setting you can try to put on of the host ports and see if that works   worked for me   the config script looks like    if  isPlainHostName host       return  DIRECT   else if  dnsDomainIs host    lt    sample host name         gt         return  PROXY    some ip       DIRECT   else if  dnsDomainIs host   address com              dnsDomainIs host   adress2  com              dnsDomainIs host   address3 com              dnsDomainIs host   address4 com               return  PROXY  lt    some proxyhost     gt  8080     you would need to look for the host port in the return statement

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Well there s the Network Connections preference page  you can add proxies there   I don t know much about it  I don t know if the Maven integration plugins will use the proxies defined there   You can find it at Window   Preferences  then General   Network Connections

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Download proxy script and check last line for return statement Proxy IP and Port  Add this IP and Port using these step      1   Windows -- gt Preferences-- gt General -- gt Network Connection    2  Select Active Provider   Manual    3   Proxy entries select HTTP-- gt  Click on Edit button    4   Then add Host as a proxy IP and port left Required Authentication blank     5   Restart eclipse    6   Now Eclipse Marketplace    working

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In the file   your eclipse installation configuration settings org eclipse core net prefs  you need the option  systemProxiesEnabled true  You can set it also by the Eclipse GUI  Go to Window -  Preferences -  General -  Network Connections Change the provider to  Native   The first way is working even if your Eclipse is broken due to wrong configuration attempts

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In Netbeans  we can use Tools- Options-  General Tab -   Under proxy settings  select Use system proxy settings    This way  it uses the proxy settings provided in Settings -  Control Panel -  Internet Options -  Connections -  Lan Settings -  use automatic configuration scripts   If you are using maven  make sure the proxy settings are not provided there  so that it uses Netbeans settings provided above for proxy   Hope this helps   Shreedevi

[eclipse] Is there any way of configuring Eclipse IDE proxy settings via an autoproxy configuration script?

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