Hi, We're developing webapps running on Tomcat 7. The apps use third-party components that we can't modify and those components connect to external sites using HTTP. Our ops guys have a policy of routing all outbound traffic through an authenticating HTTP proxy. This is a bit of problem for us since the Oracle Java 7 JVM doesn't support configuring proxy authentication on the JVM level (using e.g. system properties).
One possible workaround I could think of is to create a custom javaagent that would set a default java.net.Authenticator in premain() method. This approach appears to work in a command line program that uses HttpURLConnection, but are there any potential caveats to this method when used with webapps running in Tomcat? One shortcoming is that the same Authenticator would be used for all webapps in the JVM, but this is something we can live with. marko
