Hello,

I have a problem with the commons-httpclient package (jakarta). Suppose I
want to send a POST request (PostMethod in commons-httpclient) to the URL
http://my-server:9999/Test. The commons-httpclient generates a request
looking like this:

POST /Test HTTP/1.1
User Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.0-rc2
HOST: my-server:9999
... 

This is a valid request. But in our intranet the request is blocked by a
firewall, because of the relative path in the request line (first line). The
firewall needs a request like this:

POST http://my-server:9999/Test HTTP/1.1 User Agent: Jakarta
Commons-HttpClient/3.0-rc2
HOST: my-server:9999
... 

This format is mandatory (RFC 2616) if the request is send via a proxy. I've
examined the commons-httpclient code and found out that the complete URL is
written in the request line if I set a proxy in the HttpClient class (in the
HostConfiguration). But I don't know the URL of the proxy where the firewall
runs. Is there another way to force the commons-httpclient to write the full
URL? 

I've tried to set the destination server as proxy, too (in the example above
I've set my-server:9999 as proxy). This worked in a local environment. I
haven't tested if this will work in our intranet (since the test will take
some time) and it also looks a little bit like a dirty workaround to me.

Regards
Markus 


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