RE: Firewall tunneling, question still open !

[Olivier Sarrat <ol...@hotmail.com>]

Thanks Eric for your fast answer, but I knew already about that system 
properties stuff... You can only set the hostname and port of the proxy 
server through them, but you can't set the login/password.

So, the question is still open !


>The JVM itself has some system properties you can set to go through
>application level firewalls (i.e. http proxy or socks). I don't remember
>what the exact settings are, but you'd run something like java
>-Dhttp.proxy=blablabla.
>
>Eric
>
>
>Hi !
>
>Does anyone know how to go through a firewall without rewriting a complete
>XML-RPC client ?
>
>I manage of course to set the System properties with the hostname and port
>of the proxy server.. but there's no method in XmlRpcClient to pass the
>login/password.. I've tried setBasicAuthentification, but it doesn't 
>wotk...
>
>Has anyone any idea ?
>
>Cheers !
>
>Olivier Sarrat.
>
>




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Re: Firewall tunneling, question still open !

[Daniel Rall <dl...@finemaltcoding.com>]

"Olivier Sarrat" <ol...@hotmail.com> writes:

> Thanks Eric for your fast answer, but I knew already about that system
> properties stuff... You can only set the hostname and port of the
> proxy server through them, but you can't set the login/password.
>
> So, the question is still open !

Why don't you just use a SSH tunnel or netcat proxy to tunnel through
the firewall?

Re: Firewall tunneling, question still open !

[Daniel Rall <dl...@finemaltcoding.com>]

"Olivier Sarrat" <ol...@hotmail.com> writes:

> Thanks Eric for your fast answer, but I knew already about that system
> properties stuff... You can only set the hostname and port of the
> proxy server through them, but you can't set the login/password.
>
> So, the question is still open !

Why don't you just use a SSH tunnel or netcat proxy to tunnel through
the firewall?