IllegalArgumentException with Socket API and Proxy with Proxy.Type.HTTP
 

I am trying to create a socket with the proxy type of HTTP. Every time thesocket is created an IllegalArgumentException is thrown. I have learned from googling that the HTTP proxy is unsupported in sockets. What is the work around? Does anyone know? Any help would be much appreciated as there doesn't seem to be an answer readily available that I can find.

Greg

Re: IllegalArgumentException with Socket API and Proxy with Proxy.Type.HTTP
 

On 7/26/2012 10:00 AM, Greg wrote:
> I am trying to create a socket with the proxy type of HTTP. Every
> time the socket is created an IllegalArgumentException is thrown. I
> have learned from googling that the HTTP proxy is unsupported in
> sockets. What is the work around? Does anyone know? Any help would
> be much appreciated as there doesn't seem to be an answer readily
> available that I can find.
>
> Greg
>

You can set up proxies in the Java Control Panel.

Re: IllegalArgumentException with Socket API and Proxy with Proxy.Type.HTTP
 

On 26/07/12 18:00, Greg wrote:
> I am trying to create a socket with the proxy type of HTTP. Every time the socket is created an IllegalArgumentException is thrown. I have learned from googling that the HTTP proxy is unsupported in sockets. What is the work around?

How much does the code using the Socket depend on its 'interface'?
Perhaps it would be happy with (say) just getInputStream() and
getOutputStream() on an already connected Socket. If so, then perhaps
you can connect to the proxy explicitly, send "CONNECT" yourself, and
parse the response header. If all goes okay, hand the socket as is over
to the 'using' code, and it won't know the difference.

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Re: IllegalArgumentException with Socket API and Proxy with Proxy.Type.HTTP
 

On Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:00:23 AM UTC-7, Greg wrote:
> I am trying to create a socket with the proxy type of HTTP. Every time the socket is created an IllegalArgumentException is thrown. I have learnedfrom googling that the HTTP proxy is unsupported in sockets. What is the work around? Does anyone know? Any help would be much appreciated as there doesn't seem to be an answer readily available that I can find.
>
>
>
> Greg

The code pretty extensively relies on the sockets interface.

Re: IllegalArgumentException with Socket API and Proxy with Proxy.Type.HTTP
 

On 09/08/12 21:40, Greg wrote:
> On Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:00:23 AM UTC-7, Greg wrote:
>> I am trying to create a socket with the proxy type of HTTP. Every time the socket is created an IllegalArgumentException is thrown. I have learned from googling that the HTTP proxy is unsupported in sockets.
> The code pretty extensively relies on the sockets interface.

Can you define 'pretty extensively', i.e. enumerate the methods which
are used, and in what sequences? If this is sufficiently simple, and
you can modify the code, some refactoring to use your own abstraction of
the socket ought to be possible.

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