Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Eclipse Proxy settings - bug and workaround

Many a times I experienced weird behavior of eclipse network connectivity (despite providing proxy settings) especially while installing plugins from update sites.
However, didn’t pay enough heed to the issues and many a times moved on with installing the plugins by manually downloading it.

With Eclipse Indigo, as the Eclipse marketplace makes plugin installation quite easier, I thought of checking out the exact issue with eclipse network connectivity.

As always, found the bug and work around easily by searching on net (community power!!!)

The bug is with Eclipse proxy settings. Normally, when we enable proxy on eclipse, we enable all types of proxies – HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS.
The issue is that if you add ‘SOCKS’ proxy entry, eclipse will ignore HTTP/HTTPS whereas normally you will always connect to an HTTP/S url.
So the solution is that remove ‘SOCKS’ proxy entry and keep only HTTP/HTTPS entry. (Make sure you select Active provider as ‘Manual’)

Following is the screenshot for the proxy setting.


Update: You need to restart your eclipse after making this change.

Cheers,
Sarang
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17 comments:

  1. David BeatonOctober 25, 2012 at 2:39 PM

    Hi Sarang

    I had tried every single setting I could think of to get this to work in Spring Tool Suite 3.1 (based on Eclipse Juno) on my Mac until I saw the update to your post: 'you need to restart'. That was all that was required!

    Thanks

    David

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    1. Sarang AnajwalaOctober 25, 2012 at 9:10 PM

      Hi David,
      I am glad my blog could help you.

      Cheers,
      Sarang

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  2. LutzOctober 26, 2012 at 5:39 PM

    i would have never figured this out on my own. thank you so much :)

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  3. UnknownJuly 4, 2013 at 10:29 PM

    Thanks! you save my day

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  4. UnknownMarch 24, 2014 at 10:04 PM

    Million thanks, still a problem in Kepler, apparently

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  5. AMOLJune 26, 2014 at 11:29 AM

    Thanks a lot Sarang, It worked for me... Saved me lots of time..

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  6. Send Flower PakistanAugust 4, 2014 at 8:36 PM

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  7. DiegoFebruary 2, 2015 at 5:44 PM

    Great tip!

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  8. UnknownOctober 28, 2015 at 5:26 PM

    Good job! Thank you very much...

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  9. verketMarch 9, 2016 at 4:09 AM

    Thanks a bunch -- it's still a problem with Spring Tool Suite 3.7.3/Eclipse Neon 4.6!

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  10. AnonymousJune 16, 2016 at 12:15 PM

    THANKSSSS I was struggling with this for too much time!!

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  11. Sarang AnajwalaJune 16, 2016 at 12:26 PM

    Good to see that my post is helpful. Not so good to see that this issue still exists after all these years! (I should share the blame of not contributing back to community by fixing the issue!)

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  12. Ninad AmkarDecember 23, 2016 at 10:50 AM

    Still struggling with it on Neon 2

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  13. unknownMay 25, 2017 at 12:22 AM

    still the same issue am facing after i did what u told...

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  14. UnknownOctober 26, 2017 at 12:31 AM

    Still a valid answer for Eclipse Oxygen. Thank you for share. Best regards.

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    Its a really informative post..



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  16. Ross GellerJanuary 7, 2020 at 6:08 PM

    Thanks for sharing mate! Most helpful

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