Setting JVM/JRE to use Windows Proxy Automatically

Question

I did see the question about setting the proxy for the JVM but what I want to ask is how one can utilize the proxy that is already configured (on Windows).

Here is a

Answer 1

This might be a little late, but I ran into the same problem. The way I fixed it is by adding the following system property:

-Djava.net.useSystemProxies=true

Now, note that this property is set only once at startup, so it can't change when you run your application. From https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/doc-files/net-properties.html#Proxies:

java.net.useSystemProxies (default: false) ... Note that this property is checked only once at startup.