Multiple proxies handling

Question

Hi,
I have an application with multiple threads that run simultaneously. Each thread has its own HttpURLConnection object. This object will send a http request to a webserver. I would like to be able to specify the proxy that this particular request will go thru before arriving to the origin webserver. In other words, the proxy setting is localized for each thread. Therefore, I don't want to use the system properties to set the proxy. It looks to me that HttpURLConnection doesn't have this feature. Is it possible to do it with the current JVM? If not, is there a workaround?
Any recommendation would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,

Answer 1

Hi Kurt,
Thanks for the recommendation. It seems very promising. I'm trying to build a prototype to make sure that it works for me by creating a simple test program. However, I'm having some problem with it. Below is my code:
public static void main(String[] args) {
BufferedReader input;
CookieModule.setCookiePolicyHandler(null);
try
URL url = new URL("http://w3.internal.com/cf/home/news/news_detail.cfm?article_rid=647");
HTTPConnection con = new HTTPConnection(url);
NVPair[] def_hdrs = { new NVPair("Connection", "close") };
con.setDefaultHeaders(def_hdrs);
String file = url.getFile();
HTTPResponse rsp = con.Get(file);
int statusCode = rsp.getStatusCode();
if (statusCode >= 300)
System.err.println("Received Error: "+rsp.getReasonLine());
System.err.println(rsp.getText());
else
System.out.println(rsp.getText());
catch (IOException ioe)
System.err.println(ioe.toString());
catch (ParseException pe)
System.err.println("Error parsing Content-Type: " + pe.toString());
catch (ModuleException me)
System.err.println("Error handling request: " + me.getMessage());
The program generated java.io.EOFException: Premature EOF encountered and didn't print out the response content as wanted. This behavior is not very consistent since I also tried others different urls and some work, some don't.
Have you used this lib? Have you ever seen this behavior? What is the cause? Am I missing something?
Thanks in advance for your help.