How do I set a proxy for HttpClient?

In this example you will see how to configure proxy when using the Apache Commons HttpClient library.

package org.kodejava.commons.httpclient;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.Credentials;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HostConfiguration;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;

import java.io.IOException;

public class HttpGetProxy {
    private static final String PROXY_HOST = "proxy.host.com";
    private static final int PROXY_PORT = 8080;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        HttpMethod method = new GetMethod("https://kodejava.org");

        HostConfiguration config = client.getHostConfiguration();
        config.setProxy(PROXY_HOST, PROXY_PORT);

        String username = "guest";
        String password = "s3cr3t";
        Credentials credentials = new UsernamePasswordCredentials(username, password);
        AuthScope authScope = new AuthScope(PROXY_HOST, PROXY_PORT);

        client.getState().setProxyCredentials(authScope, credentials);

        try {
            client.executeMethod(method);

            if (method.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
                String response = method.getResponseBodyAsString();
                System.out.println("Response = " + response);
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            method.releaseConnection();
        }
    }
}

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>
    <version>3.1</version>
</dependency>

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Wayan

3 Comments

  1. Hi Wayan Saryada,

    Which version of the jar should use for this program. I am getting NoClassDefFoundError error. Please suggest me.

    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/codec/DecoderException
        at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.(HttpMethodBase.java:217)
        at org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod.(GetMethod.java:88)
        at HttpClientTest.main(HttpClientTest.java:19)
    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.codec.DecoderException
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
        ... 3 more
    
    Reply
  2. Hi Naveen,

    The example requires the commons-httpclient-3.x.jar. When using maven all other dependencies will be downloaded. In this case the DecoderException class is part of the Apache Commons commons-codec-1.2.jar.

    Reply

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