Without changing code, how to force httpClient to use proxy by environment variables or JVM arguments

java apache-commons-httpclient
user496949 picture user496949 · Mar 2, 2011 · Viewed 34.5k times · Source

I found setting http.proxyHost and http.proxyPort is of no use to httpClient. How to force the httpClient to use proxy by environment variables or VM arguments or something like those without changing code?

Answer

Krystian Nowak picture Krystian Nowak · Nov 27, 2012

in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1128

SystemDefaultHttpClient was added to ver. 4.2

see http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/httpclient/apidocs/org/apache/http/impl/client/SystemDefaultHttpClient.html

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