At one point, I modified the Scrape taglib to use the standard URLConnection object.
I botched it the first time, but I think I had it working OK the second time. I found
one real problem -- there was a mistake in the use of the regular expression library
to find the text between the tags.
If you set the system properties:
http.proxyHost
http.proxyPort
(either programmatically, or by using -Dpropname=value when starting Java)
it will work with a proxy server that doesn't require authentication. For
authentication, you need to add a custom header to the request. I have the
code