How to Specify Eclipse Proxy Authentication Credentials?

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jtruelove picture jtruelove · Dec 21, 2009 · Viewed 182.1k times · Source

I'm using the latest version of Eclipse Galileo and I have to access the web from behind a proxy. I see where I can set the internet settings to manual and specify a proxy but there's no way to specify my authentication credentials that I can see and it doesn't prompt me for them either. So I'm not able to hit any plugin update sites etc... Does anyone else have this issue or know a good workaround? Or is there a better version of Eclipse to use?

Answer

Eli Acherkan picture Eli Acherkan · Dec 21, 2009

In Eclipse, go to Window → Preferences → General → Network Connections. In the Active Provider combo box, choose "Manual". In the proxy entries table, for each entry click "Edit..." and supply your proxy host, port, username and password details.

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