Testing proxy server

Question

I have installed JES proxy server and created network group ,load balancing properties and other reqd.properties to manager two consumer directories.
In order to test the set up i am using ldapsearch utility to search for an user.I am binding it to proxy for the search assuming that it will take the request and forward it to one of consumers.When i run the ldapsearch query ,am getting insufficient access error and the log files do not show up anything.Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Socket socket = new Socket(httpProxyServer, proxyPort);
boolean isConnected = socket.isConnected();At this point 'isConnected' can only be true. Contrary to widespread misperception, it will then remain true forever, even after you close the socket.
This code checks whether the proxy server and port are valid. If ivalid, it throws either UnknownHost or ConnectionTimeout Exception. There is no such exception as ConnectionTimeoutException in the JDK. It is mostly likely to throw ConnectException, with either 'connection refused' or 'connection timed out'.
But how I do validate the other 2 inputs - Http proxy user and password? I will not have any URL here to make a URLConnection using the proxy.
The validation has to be done just with 4 inputs - proxy server, prot, user and password.In that case it can't be done. Just connecting directly to the proxy only proves that it is listening. You can only get it to ask for authentication by getting it to do something, i.e. fetch a URL.
See also java.net.Proxy.