Starting SOA server using proxy fails with exception

Question

Hi,
The problem is as mentioned in the subjet.
In console-servers-soa server - server start - arguments , I have entered
-Dhttp.proxyHost=XX.XX.140.2 -Dhttp.proxyPort=80
When i try to start the server, I get this in the log:
Listen Address server1:8001
Public Address N/A
Http Enabled true
Tunneling Enabled false
Outbound Enabled false
Admin Traffic Enabled true>
<Jan 19, 2011 1:10:23 PM CST> <Info> <Server> <BEA-002609> <Channel Service initialized.>
<Jan 19, 2011 1:10:24 PM CST> <Info> <Socket> <BEA-000436> <Allocating 2 reader threads.>
<Jan 19, 2011 1:10:24 PM CST> <Info> <Socket> <BEA-000446> <Native IO Enabled.>
<Jan 19, 2011 1:10:24 PM CST> <Info> <IIOP> <BEA-002014> <IIOP subsystem enabled.>
<Jan 19, 2011 1:10:53 PM CST> <Error> <Net> <BEA-000903> <Failed to communicate with proxy: XX.XX.140.2/80. Will try connection admin/7001 now.
java.net.ProtocolException: unrecognized response from proxy: 'HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden'
at weblogic.socket.utils.ProxyUtils.getProxySocket(ProxyUtils.java:206)
at weblogic.socket.utils.ProxyUtils.getClientProxy(ProxyUtils.java:221)
at weblogic.socket.SocketMuxer.newClientSocket(SocketMuxer.java:345)
at weblogic.socket.ChannelSocketFactory.createSocket(ChannelSocketFactory.java:79)
When i tried the below cmd from my soa server console,
wget www.yahoo.com
I get proper response.
oracle@server:/data/oracle/domains/soau_domain/servers/soa_server01_01/logs> wget www.yahoo.com
--2011-01-19 13:50:33-- http://www.yahoo.com/
Resolving proxy.sample.local... XX.XX.140.2
Connecting to proxy.sample.local|XX.XX.140.2|:80... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://au.yahoo.com/?p=us [following]
--2011-01-19 13:50:34-- http://au.yahoo.com/?p=us
Connecting to proxy.sample.local|XX.XX.140.2|:80... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
So looks like proxy server is reachable from soa server.
Can anyone help me with where this could be getting wrong?
Thanks
Ganesh

Answer 1

java.net.ProtocolException: unrecognized response from proxy: 'HTTP/1.1 403 ForbiddenThis looks like that the proxy is expecting an username from soa server for authentication and you have not configured soa server to send the username/password to authenticate at the proxy server. I am not sure if soa server has a way to specify username/password for proxy authentication, but a workaround we used to do in an earlier version of OSB ( ALSB 2.5, where there was no provision to specify proxy authentication crdentials) was to add the URL's you want to access via proxy, to the 'proxy-free-list' of the proxy server. A proxy wont prompt for username/password for accessing an URL which is in its 'proxy-free-list'.