URGENT HELP on HTTP Handler class from WebLogic

Question

          Hi,
          We are using a configuration where Weblogic is behind a firewall
          and we are making http calls to hosts on the same
          internal network and to hosts on the Internet. For Internet hosts
          we make the http calls pass thru a firewall configured to act as
          a proxy.
          The way you do it is use JVM settings http.proxyHost, http.proxyPort
          and http.nonProxyHosts.
          Now I found that the JVM setting "http.nonProxyHosts"
          is ignored by the weblogic http url connection class resulting
          in
          packets intended for local hosts being sent to the firewall/proxy
          and obviously getting rejected. This happens because Weblogic uses
          its own Http URL Connection class from weblogic.net.http.HttpURLConnection.
          This replaces Sun provided defualt HttpURLConnection class which
          works fine
          Is this a known problem in Version 5.1 sp8 on Solaris
          7 ? How can I make http calls (using java.net classes) to
          internal hosts directly when "http.proxyHost" property is set ?
          PLEASE HELP !!
          Thanks
          Atish
          

Answer 1

There were quite a few problems reported here when using WebLogic's
          handlers for outgoing HTTP (and HTTPS) connection - all can be
          easily avoided by using Sun's implementation:
          streamhandler = get reference to a sun's stream handler
          URL url = new URL(null, urlString, streamhandler);
          URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
          Atish Ray <[email protected]> wrote:
          > Hi,
          > We are using a configuration where Weblogic is behind a firewall
          > and we are making http calls to hosts on the same
          > internal network and to hosts on the Internet. For Internet hosts
          > we make the http calls pass thru a firewall configured to act as
          > a proxy.
          > The way you do it is use JVM settings http.proxyHost, http.proxyPort
          > and http.nonProxyHosts.
          > Now I found that the JVM setting "http.nonProxyHosts"
          > is ignored by the weblogic http url connection class resulting
          > in
          > packets intended for local hosts being sent to the firewall/proxy
          > and obviously getting rejected. This happens because Weblogic uses
          > its own Http URL Connection class from weblogic.net.http.HttpURLConnection.
          > This replaces Sun provided defualt HttpURLConnection class which
          > works fine
          > Is this a known problem in Version 5.1 sp8 on Solaris
          > 7 ? How can I make http calls (using java.net classes) to
          > internal hosts directly when "http.proxyHost" property is set ?
          > PLEASE HELP !!
          > Thanks
          > Atish
          Dimitri