Question

I need to establish and send/read over/from an https connection (to a website of course) but through an http proxy or SOCKS proxy. A few other requirements

• supports blocking (I can’t use non-blocking/nio)
• isn’t set as an environment or some other global scope property (there are multiple threads accessing)

I was looking into HttpCore components but I did not see any support for blocking https.

Answer 1

Look at the java.net.Proxy class. That does what you need. You create one, and then pass it to the URLConnection to create the connection.