On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:57:56PM +0200, Peter Paul wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm about add SOCKS proxy support to an application that uses
> HttpClient and it's HttpProxy capabilities. While Http Proxy support is
> given by the HttpClient API, I could not find said thing for SOCKS, so
> I found that it would be nessesary to implement it via
> ProtocolSocketFactory.
> However, the application in question can has several open connections
> that even may go through different proxies. There is a HttpClient
> object for every connection. So I did a ProxySocketFactory class and
> specified a custom proxy protocol
>
> Protocol myProxy = new Protocol("http", new ProxySocketFactory(proxy),
> 80);
>
> How can I get the HttpClient object to use this protocol by default?
> There is a default protocol in HttpClient's HostConfiguration object,
> but it only provides a getProtocol method.
>
Use static Protocol#register method
> So maybe there is a better way on how to get an application support
> SOCKS as well? I have not figured out yet how to get authentification
> either.
>
As far as I know SOCK proxying works on the java.net.Socket level and therefore
should be absolutely transparent for the HTTP layer.
Oleg
> I'm looking foreward hearing from you
> Peter
>
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