Java API: Connect using proxies on different threads.

Question

I would like to use different proxies instead of just one. Currently the ProxySelector sets a system wide proxy for all URLConnections. Does anyone know of a library that supports non system-wide proxies. Just something as simple as adding the appropriate proxy http headers/socks layers?

Answer 1

You can specify a proxy when opening a URLConnection. Is that what you mean?

If you want something that works automatically, you could implement a ProxySelector that uses a ThreadLocal table internally to provide different selectors based on the calling thread.

Answer 2

Check out http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/URL.html#openConnection(java.net.Proxy)

It takes http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/Proxy.html as an argument.