Well, thanks... my employer also likes that app... And since I am now (well,
was, since they made an exception and now allow my workstation to BYPASS the proxy...)
From the Java FAQ at
www.afu.com (Peter van der Linden's):
10.(Sect. 15) How do I get a URLConnection to work through proxy firewalls? I.e. How do you get your
application to do its web accesses through a proxy?
This is typically needed for any net access to another domain. Tell the run time system what you are trying to do, by using these commandline arguments when you start the program.
java -DproxySet=true -DproxyHost=SOMEHOST -DproxyPort=SOMENUM classname
Note proxyPort is optional and it defaults to 80. Without this, you will see an exception like java.net.UnknownHostException or java.net.NoRouteToHostException
The proxy settings work for java.net.URLConnection, but apparently not for java.net.Sockets. Update! The proxyHost and proxyPort systems properties (from 1.0.2) are deprecated,
you should use http.proxyHost and http.proxyPort. They are for HTTP proxies only. If you are using java.net.Socket you are not using the URL classes, and cannot get the proxy behavior.
Netscape's and IE's JVMs (at least in versions 4.x+) take the proxy settings for
applets from the browser's proxy configuration. You can also do URL proxies in applications (not applets) with the following code:
// set up to use proxy
System.getProperties().put("proxySet", "true");
System.getProperties().put("proxyHost", "myproxy.server.name");
System.getProperties().put("proxyPort", "80");
