Problem: HTTPS connections via authenticated proxy

Question

Hi all,
we are facing a problem with the BEA implementation of the HTTPS
client/server protocol. As you might know it's possible to tunnel T3 via
HTTP/HTTPS. We are evaluating that at the moment. To make authentication for
proxy servers possible we followed the documentation and created a class
implementing the ProxyAuthenticator interface. Everything worked find until
we tried to use this together with the HTTPS-protocol. Whereas it works as
long as the proxy doesn't ask for authentication, the ProxyAuthenticator
class isn't even called in the other case. Has anyone of you already made it
work?
Your help is highly appreciated,
Tchaw!
Christoph Krüger

Answer 1

implementing the ProxyAuthenticator interface. Everything Think your are trying to authenticate the jdk 1.2 way,
maybe just trying it jdk 1.1 like will help.
What i found in the jsse Docu:
When accessing HTTPS servers through a web proxy, you must set the "https.proxyHost"
and "https.proxyPort" system properties to
the correct host name and port number of the web proxy.
For example, to set this property on the command line to access HTTPS servers
through the proxy host "webproxy" running at port 8080 you would use:
java -Dhttps.proxyHost=webproxy -Dhttps.proxyPort=8080
And some of my sample code for proxy auth:
System.getProperties().put( "proxySet", "true" );
System.getProperties().put( "proxyHost", "proxyurl" );
System.getProperties().put( "proxyPort", "8080" );
String authString = "userid:password";
// enter the username and password for the proxy
String auth = "Basic " + new sun.misc.BASE64Encoder().encode authString.getBytes());
URL u = new URL("http://www.bild.de/");
URLConnection connection = u.openConnection();
connection.setRequestProperty( "Proxy-Authorization", auth ); // Set up the connection
so it knows you are sending proxy user information
connection.setRequestProperty( "Authorization", auth );
connection.setDoInput( true ); // Set up the connection
so you can do read and writes
connection.setDoOutput( true );
// request.getAuthType() // Rueckgabewert ueberpruefen
Bye, Klaas