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Davanum Srinivas

Suppose your proxy server is called "proxy.foo.com" and it is on port 9999. There are a couple of ways of configuring Apache to use a proxy. One solution is to use the JVM capabilities to deal with proxies:

System.getProperties().put("proxySet","true");
System.getProperties().put("proxyHost","proxy.foo.com");
System.getProperties().put("proxyPort","9999");

For socks based proxy server:

System.getProperties().put("socksProxyHost","socks.foo.com");
System.getProperties().put("socksProxyPort","1080");

Another solution is to tell TOMCAT to the proxying via the variable TOMCAT_OPTS), for HTTP proxies:

set TOMCAT_OPTS="-DproxyHost=proxy.foo.com -DproxyPort=9999"

For socks:

set TOMCAT_OPTS="-DsocksProxyHost=socks.foo.com -DsocksProxyPort=1080"