As is pointed out in other answers, if you need to use Authenticated proxies, there's no reliable way to do this purely using command-line variables - which is annoying if you're using someone else's application and don't want to mess with the source code.
Will Iverson makes the helpful suggestion over at Using HttpProxy to connect to a host with preemtive authentication to use a Proxy-management tool such as Proxifier ( http://www.proxifier.com/ for Mac OS X and Windows) to handle this.
For example with Proxifier you can set it up to only intercept java commands to be managed and redirected through its (authenticated) proxy. You're going to want to set the proxyHost and proxyPort values to blank in this case though, e.g. pass in -Dhttp.proxyHost= -Dhttp.proxyPort= to your java commands.
To use the system proxy setup:
java -Djava.net.useSystemProxies=true ...
Or programatically:
System.setProperty("java.net.useSystemProxies", "true");
Source: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/doc-files/net-properties.html
Recently I've discovered the way to allow JVM to use browser proxy settings. What you need to do is to add ${java.home}/lib/deploy.jar to your project and to init the library like the following:
import com.sun.deploy.net.proxy.DeployProxySelector;
import com.sun.deploy.services.PlatformType;
import com.sun.deploy.services.ServiceManager;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
public abstract class ExtendedProxyManager {
private static final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(ExtendedProxyManager.class);
/**
* After calling this method, proxy settings can be magically retrieved from default browser settings.
*/
public static boolean init() {
logger.debug("Init started");
// Initialization code was taken from com.sun.deploy.ClientContainer:
ServiceManager
.setService(System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().indexOf("windows") != -1 ? PlatformType.STANDALONE_TIGER_WIN32
: PlatformType.STANDALONE_TIGER_UNIX);
try {
// This will call ProxySelector.setDefault():
DeployProxySelector.reset();
} catch (Throwable throwable) {
logger.error("Unable to initialize extended dynamic browser proxy settings support.", throwable);
return false;
}
return true;
}
}
Afterwards the proxy settings are available to Java API via java.net.ProxySelector.
The only problem with this approach is that you need to start JVM with deploy.jar in bootclasspath e.g. java -Xbootclasspath/a:"%JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib\deploy.jar" -jar my.jar. If somebody knows how to overcome this limitation, let me know.
You can set those flags programmatically this way:
if (needsProxy()) {
System.setProperty("http.proxyHost",getProxyHost());
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort",getProxyPort());
} else {
System.setProperty("http.proxyHost","");
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort","");
}
Just return the right values from the methods needsProxy(), getProxyHost() and getProxyPort() and you can call this code snippet whenever you want.
That works for me:
public void setHttpProxy(boolean isNeedProxy) {
if (isNeedProxy) {
System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", getProxyHost());
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", getProxyPort());
} else {
System.clearProperty("http.proxyHost");
System.clearProperty("http.proxyPort");
}
}
P/S: I base on GHad's answer.
This is a minor update, but since Java 7, proxy connections can now be created programmatically rather than through system properties. This may be useful if:
Here's a contrived example in groovy:
// proxy configuration read from file resource under "proxyFileName"
String proxyFileName = "proxy.txt"
String proxyPort = "1234"
String url = "http://www.promised.land"
File testProxyFile = new File(proxyFileName)
URLConnection connection
if (!testProxyFile.exists()) {
logger.debug "proxyFileName doesn't exist. Bypassing connection via proxy."
connection = url.toURL().openConnection()
} else {
String proxyAddress = testProxyFile.text
connection = url.toURL().openConnection(new Proxy(Proxy.Type.HTTP, new InetSocketAddress(proxyAddress, proxyPort)))
}
try {
connection.connect()
}
catch (Exception e) {
logger.error e.printStackTrace()
}
Full Reference: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/net/proxies.html
reading an XML file and needs to download its schema
If you are counting on retrieving schemas or DTDs over the internet, you're building a slow, chatty, fragile application. What happens when that remote server hosting the file takes planned or unplanned downtime? Your app breaks. Is that OK?
See http://xml.apache.org/commons/components/resolver/resolver-article.html#s.catalog.files
URL's for schemas and the like are best thought of as unique identifiers. Not as requests to actually access that file remotely. Do some google searching on "XML catalog". An XML catalog allows you to host such resources locally, resolving the slowness, chattiness and fragility.
It's basically a permanently cached copy of the remote content. And that's OK, since the remote content will never change. If there's ever an update, it'd be at a different URL. Making the actual retrieval of the resource over the internet especially silly.
You can set some properties about the proxy server as jvm parameters
-Dhttp.proxyPort=8080, proxyHost, etc.
but if you need pass through an authenticating proxy, you need an authenticator like this example:
ProxyAuthenticator.java
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class ProxyAuthenticator extends Authenticator {
private String userName, password;
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
return new PasswordAuthentication(userName, password.toCharArray());
}
public ProxyAuthenticator(String userName, String password) {
this.userName = userName;
this.password = password;
}
}
Example.java
import java.net.Authenticator;
import ProxyAuthenticator;
public class Example {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String username = System.getProperty("proxy.authentication.username");
String password = System.getProperty("proxy.authentication.password");
if (username != null && !username.equals("")) {
Authenticator.setDefault(new ProxyAuthenticator(username, password));
}
// here your JVM will be authenticated
}
}
Based on this reply: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-jmeter-user/200208.mbox/%3C494FD350388AD511A9DD00025530F33102F1DC2C@MMSX006%3E
To set an HTTP/HTTPS and/or SOCKS proxy programmatically:
...
public void setProxy() {
if (isUseHTTPProxy()) {
// HTTP/HTTPS Proxy
System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", getHTTPHost());
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", getHTTPPort());
System.setProperty("https.proxyHost", getHTTPHost());
System.setProperty("https.proxyPort", getHTTPPort());
if (isUseHTTPAuth()) {
String encoded = new String(Base64.encodeBase64((getHTTPUsername() + ":" + getHTTPPassword()).getBytes()));
con.setRequestProperty("Proxy-Authorization", "Basic " + encoded);
Authenticator.setDefault(new ProxyAuth(getHTTPUsername(), getHTTPPassword()));
}
}
if (isUseSOCKSProxy()) {
// SOCKS Proxy
System.setProperty("socksProxyHost", getSOCKSHost());
System.setProperty("socksProxyPort", getSOCKSPort());
if (isUseSOCKSAuth()) {
System.setProperty("java.net.socks.username", getSOCKSUsername());
System.setProperty("java.net.socks.password", getSOCKSPassword());
Authenticator.setDefault(new ProxyAuth(getSOCKSUsername(), getSOCKSPassword()));
}
}
}
...
public class ProxyAuth extends Authenticator {
private PasswordAuthentication auth;
private ProxyAuth(String user, String password) {
auth = new PasswordAuthentication(user, password == null ? new char[]{} : password.toCharArray());
}
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
return auth;
}
}
...
Remember that HTTP proxies and SOCKS proxies operate at different levels in the network stack, so you can use one or the other or both.
Set the java.net.useSystemProxies property to true. You can set it, for example, through the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS environmental variable. In Ubuntu, you can, for example, add the following line to .bashrc:
export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS+=" -Djava.net.useSystemProxies=true"
I think configuring WINHTTP will also work.
Many programs including Windows Updates are having problems behind proxy. By setting up WINHTTP will always fix this kind of problems
If you want "Socks Proxy", inform the "socksProxyHost" and "socksProxyPort" VM arguments.
e.g.
java -DsocksProxyHost=127.0.0.1 -DsocksProxyPort=8080 org.example.Main
Combining Sorter's and javabrett/Leonel's answers:
java -Dhttp.proxyHost=10.10.10.10 -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 -Dhttp.proxyUser=username -Dhttp.proxyPassword=password -jar myJar.jar
I am also behind firewall, this worked for me!!
System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", "proxy host addr");
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", "808");
Authenticator.setDefault(new Authenticator() {
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
return new PasswordAuthentication("domain\\user","password".toCharArray());
}
});
URL url = new URL("http://www.google.com/");
URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
con.getInputStream()));
// Read it ...
String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
System.out.println(inputLine);
in.close();
You can utilize the http.proxy* JVM variables if you're within a standalone JVM but you SHOULD NOT modify their startup scripts and/or do this within your application server (except maybe jboss or tomcat). Instead you should utilize the JAVA Proxy API (not System.setProperty) or utilize the vendor's own configuration options. Both WebSphere and WebLogic have very defined ways of setting up the proxies that are far more powerful than the J2SE one. Additionally, for WebSphere and WebLogic you will likely break your application server in little ways by overriding the startup scripts (particularly the server's interop processes as you might be telling them to use your proxy as well...).
Add this before you connect to a URL behind a proxy.
System.getProperties().put("http.proxyHost", "someProxyURL");
System.getProperties().put("http.proxyPort", "someProxyPort");
System.getProperties().put("http.proxyUser", "someUserName");
System.getProperties().put("http.proxyPassword", "somePassword");
JVM uses the proxy to make HTTP calls
System.getProperties().put("http.proxyHost", "someProxyURL");
System.getProperties().put("http.proxyPort", "someProxyPort");
This may use user setting proxy
System.setProperty("java.net.useSystemProxies", "true");
The following shows how to set in Java a proxy with proxy user and proxy password from the command line, which is a very common case. You should not save passwords and hosts in the code, as a rule in the first place.
Passing the system properties in command line with -D and setting them in the code with System.setProperty("name", "value") is equivalent.
But note this
Example that works:
C:\temp>java -Dhttps.proxyHost=host -Dhttps.proxyPort=port -Dhttps.proxyUser=user -Dhttps.proxyPassword="password" -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=c:/cacerts -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=changeit com.andreas.JavaNetHttpConnection
But the following does not work:
C:\temp>java com.andreas.JavaNetHttpConnection -Dhttps.proxyHost=host -Dhttps.proxyPort=port -Dhttps=proxyUser=user -Dhttps.proxyPassword="password" -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=c:/cacerts -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=changeit
The only difference is the position of the system properties! (before and after the class)
If you have special characters in password, you are allowed to put it in quotes "@MyPass123%", like in the above example.
If you access an HTTPS service, you have to use https.proxyHost, https.proxyPort etc.
If you access an HTTP service, you have to use http.proxyHost, http.proxyPort etc.
Source: Stackoverflow.com