Question

I need to set up proxy authentication against a SOCKS proxy.
I found out this post giving instructions that appear to work with common HTTP proxies.

        httpclient.getHostConfiguration().setProxy("proxyserver.example.com", 8080);

        HttpState state = new HttpState();
        state.setProxyCredentials(new AuthScope("proxyserver.example.com", 8080), 
           new UsernamePasswordCredentials("username", "password"));
        httpclient.setState(state);

Would that work with SOCKS proxies as well or do I have to do something different?

Answer 1

The Features page of Apache HTTPClient says:

Transparent connections through SOCKS proxies (version 4 & 5) using native Java socket support.

With “transparent”, I guess they mean that it works without you needing to do anything special. Do you have a SOCKS proxy available somewhere? Can’t you just try it out to see if it works?