Bug 231863 – Automatically parse http_proxy var in java launcher

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Hanno Böck 2008-07-15 14:08:03 UTC]

sun jre does not honour the http_proxy env variable, though it might be an idea to automatically parse it inside launcher.bash.

Some code (probably not very nice and optimized, but "worksforme") how this could be done:
        proxy_port=`echo $http_proxy|sed -e 's/.*://g'`
        proxy_host=`echo $http_proxy|sed -e 's!.*://\(.*\):.*!\1!g'`
        java -Dhttp.proxyHost=$proxy_host -Dhttp.proxyPort=$proxy_port -jar somejarfile.jar

[Comment 1 Serkan Kaba (RETIRED) 2008-07-15 18:13:47 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> sun jre does not honour the http_proxy env variable, though it might be an idea
> to automatically parse it inside launcher.bash.
> 
> Some code (probably not very nice and optimized, but "worksforme") how this
> could be done:
>         proxy_port=`echo $http_proxy|sed -e 's/.*://g'`
>         proxy_host=`echo $http_proxy|sed -e 's!.*://\(.*\):.*!\1!g'`
>         java -Dhttp.proxyHost=$proxy_host -Dhttp.proxyPort=$proxy_port -jar
> somejarfile.jar
> 

Try setting java.net.useSystemProxies to true in  ~/.gentoo/java-config-2/current-user-vm/jre/lib/net.properties

[Comment 2 Serkan Kaba (RETIRED) 2008-11-27 05:14:31 UTC]

Any news here?

[Comment 3 James Broadhead 2009-03-31 18:05:28 UTC]

This bug has just affected me; needing a proxy variable in jabref.