Proxy settings in Spring Boot

spring, spring-boot

Solution

This is not something you can configure in spring boot, HttpClient is not using java variables.

Therefor you need to set the proxy on the httpClient manually:

HostConfiguration hostConfig = new HostConfiguration();
hostConfig.setProxyHost(new ProxyHost("your.proxy.host", 8080));
httpClient.setHostConfiguration(hostConfig);

Problem

My application needs to fetch an XML file from the web, as follows: ``` @Bean public HTTPMetadataProvider metadataProvider() throws MetadataProviderException { String metadataURL = "http://idp.ssocircle.com/idp-meta.xml"; final Timer backgroundTaskTimer = new Timer(true); HTTPMetadataProvider provider = new HTTPMetadataProvider(backgroundTaskTimer, httpClient(), metadataURL); provider.setParserPool(parserPool()); return provider; } ``` I'm working by using a filtered network, thus the app is unable to retrieve that file. There is a way to setup an HTTP Proxy (e.g. `myproxy.eu:8080`) in Spring Boot? Alternatively, I could retrieve the XML file by using the HTTPS protocol, but I should properly setup the metadata provider in order to support an encrypted connection... How?

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