Http Proxy Usage

For networks within an organization, the access to the public domain Internet is often routed through a web proxy and therefore only accessible by using this proxy. Fedora >= v3.3 allows the usage of a http proxy. This means that you can for example have objects with external referenced content that is only reachable through a proxy server.

Proxy properties

There are five properties that can be used for configuring the http proxy:

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For more detailed information see the official java documentation.

Tomcat Setup

The proxy setup can be done in basically two ways. Either by using the JAVA_OPTS environment variable:

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