Technical question: running facebookTemplate behind a proxy

[Ludovic Havet]

Hello,

I am using spring-social on tomcat and am facing the problem that I run my application on my local machine which is behind my company's firewall and when I try to do a publish on facebookTemplate, I get a timeout.

If I take the URL from the trace, the URL is working. So I believe it is a proxy setting issue.

Looking at the source code for spring-social, I see that FacebookTemplate relies on RestTemplate (spring web) which itself relies on Apache httpclient.

I tried to setup proxy settings in the system properties (proxyHost, proxyPort, etc.) but no luck.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you
Ludovic

[habuma]

Were you setting "proxyHost" and "proxyPort" ? Or "http.proxyHost" and "http.proxyPort"? I recall that it is the latter that works.

[Ludovic Havet]

Yes I tried that too. I actually tried a lot of combinations.

I have found this Link on the appache site where it indicates a way to do it:

  HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();
  httpclient.getHostConfiguration().setProxy("myproxyhost", 8080);
  httpclient.getState().setProxyCredentials("my-proxy-realm", " myproxyhost",
  new UsernamePasswordCredentials("my-proxy-username", "my-proxy-password"));
  GetMethod httpget = new GetMethod("https://www.verisign.com/");
  try { 
    httpclient.executeMethod(httpget);
    System.out.println(httpget.getStatusLine());
  } finally {
    httpget.releaseConnection();
  }

I'd like to try this but it is not possible to access httpclient easily.

Does someone have tried to access facebook behind a proxy?

[Ludovic Havet]

I also found this interesting related post.

At least I am not alone

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