What Java properties to pass to a Java app to authenticate with a http proxy

Question

I have a Java application that is trying to access a web service via http proxy. The Java app is 3rd party app for which we don\'t have access to source code.

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Answer 1

Finally I figured out by trial and error. Passing java.net.useSystemProxies=true along with https.proxyPort, https.proxyHost resolved this.

Basically the java vm command line got

-Djava.net.useSystemProxies=true -Dhttps.proxyPort=80 -Dhttps.proxyHost=proxyserver.mycompany.com

I didn't have to pass https.proxyUser, https.proxyPassword. I believe proxy authentication used the same credentials as my login NTLM credentials.