[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#497559: josm: honor $http_proxy

[Andreas Putzo]

Hi,

On Sep 02  10:15, dann frazier wrote:
> 
> The jre provided by openjdk-6-jre (and possibly others) doesn't honor
> the http_proxy environment variable. When I'm behind a proxy, that means I
> need to type something like this:
> 
>   /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java -Dhttp.proxyHost=192.168.1.1 -Dhttp.proxyPort=3128 -jar /usr/share/josm/josm.jar
> 
> It would be nice if the /usr/bin/josm script detected an http_proxy environment
> variable and automatically added the necessary arguments to the java command
> line for me.

I don't think this is something we should fix in the josm wrapper script
because this problem affects every java application that somehow tries
to access the network.
But openjdk-6 allows to define system-wide proxy settings 
in /etc/java6-openjdk/net.properties. There's also a property 
java.net.useSystemProxies which i was told works with the gnome proxy 
settings but unfortunately not with $http_proxy.
We can probably improve the josm wrapper to use the environment
variable $JAVA_OPTS to customize the behaviour of the jvm, like 
defining proxy or memory settings.

Regards,
Andreas