I am currently trying to connect through a proxy server with the following code, however, it does not seem to work. That is, when the application is run, I am able to get the contents of the URL even though my proxy server is not running. Is there something that I am missing here.

Thanks in advance.

Mark

import java.net.*;

import java.io.*;



public class Proxy {

    public static void main (String args[]) throws Exception {

      Properties systemSettings = System.getProperties();

      systemSettings.put("http.proxySet", "true");

      systemSettings.put("http.proxyHost", "localhost");

      systemSettings.put("http.proxyPort", "3128");

      System.setProperties(systemSettings);

      URL url = new URL("http://www.google.com/");

      URLConnection conn = url.openConnection ();

      BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));

      String inLine; 

      while ((inLine = in.readLine()) != null) {

          System.out.println(inLine);

      }

  }

}