Accessing Webservice - Client behind firewall

[Sankar Tanguturi]

Hi,
I want to access a web service on a public site from my Java web client, created using WSAD 5.1. However, I need to go though a proxy to connect to the internet. How do I make pass the proxy info to the client ?
Thanks,
Sankar

[Lasse Koskela]

Calling

System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", "proxy.company.com");
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", "8080");

could do it (depending on what library does the generated code use for HTTP). If not, the library should provide methods for setting proxy settings.

[Sankar Tanguturi]

Hi,
I tried setting http.proxyHost and http.proxyPort. But I got the following error. However, I can get to the service through a browser. Do I need to specify the user id and password for the proxy ? I developed the client code in WSAD 5.1 in case that matters.
Thanks in advance,
Sankar
[11/17/03 16:53:32:023 EST] 2225910f enterprise I com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.enterprise WSWS3243I: Info: Mapping Exception to WebServicesFault.
[11/17/03 16:53:32:043 EST] 2225910f enterprise I com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.enterprise TRAS0014I: The following exception was logged WebServicesFault
faultCode: {http://websphere.ibm.com/webservices/}Server.generalException
faultString: java.net.ConnectException: Operation timed out: connect
faultActor: null
faultDetail:
stackTrace: java.net.ConnectException: Operation timed out: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:345)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:157)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:144)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:294)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:121)
at com.ibm.jsse.bd.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.jsse.JSSESocketFactory.createSocket(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.components.net.JSSESocketFactory.create(JSSESocketFactory.java:198)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.transport.http.HTTPSender.getSocket(HTTPSender.java:225)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.transport.http.HTTPSender.invoke(HTTPSender.java:143)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.PivotHandlerWrapper.invoke(PivotHandlerWrapper.java:217)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.WebServicesEngine.invoke(WebServicesEngine.java:258)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.client.Connection.invokeEngine(Connection.java:680)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.client.Connection.invoke(Connection.java:604)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.client.Connection.invoke(Connection.java:434)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.client.Stub$Invoke.invoke(Stub.java:666)
at com.agac.rateengine.ejb.RateEngineWsSessionSoapBindingStub.getWsPlanDictionaryForGroup(RateEngineWsSessionSoapBindingStub.java:252)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.agac.rateengine.ejb.RateEngineClient.GetPlanDictionaryAndRates(RateEngineClient.java:102)
at com.agac.rateengine.ejb.RateEngineClient.run(RateEngineClient.java:28)
at org.apache.jsp._Result._jspService(_Result.java:235)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.jsp.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:89)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.jsp.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.java:357)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.jsp.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:675)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.jsp.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:773)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.StrictServletInstance.doService(StrictServletInstance.java:110)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.StrictLifecycleServlet._service(StrictLifecycleServlet.java:174)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServicingServletState.service(StrictLifecycleServlet.java:333)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.StrictLifecycleServlet.service(StrictLifecycleServlet.java:116)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletInstance.service(ServletInstance.java:283)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ValidServletReferenceState.dispatch(ValidServletReferenceState.java:42)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletInstanceReference.dispatch(ServletInstanceReference.java:40)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppRequestDispatcher.handleWebAppDispatch(WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:948)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppRequestDispatcher.dispatch(WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:530)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebAppRequestDispatcher.forward(WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:176)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srt.WebAppInvoker.doForward(WebAppInvoker.java:79)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srt.WebAppInvoker.handleInvocationHook(WebAppInvoker.java:201)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.cache.invocation.CachedInvocation.handleInvocation(CachedInvocation.java:71)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srp.ServletRequestProcessor.dispatchByURI(ServletRequestProcessor.java:182)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.oselistener.OSEListenerDispatcher.service(OSEListener.java:334)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.http.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:56)
at com.ibm.ws.http.HttpConnection.readAndHandleRequest(HttpConnection.java:610)
at com.ibm.ws.http.HttpConnection.run(HttpConnection.java:435)
at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:593)

[Lasse Koskela]

It could be the username/password thing if your browser has been configured with them as well.
I also found this page, which might help.

[Sankar Tanguturi]

Hi,
The link you provided seems to be for Apache's SOAP implementation. I generated the web service from an EJB using WSAD. I do not see any of the classes mentioned in the article, in my code. I also tried to set proxy user id and password using :

System.setProperty("http.proxyUser", "id");
System.setProperty("http.proxyPassword", "password");
But that did not help. I really appreciate any suggestions to resolve this.
Thanks,
Sankar

[Lasse Koskela]

Maybe you should ask this in the IDE forum?