HTTPS connections over proxy servers

Question

Is it possible to have HTTPS connections over proxy servers? If yes, what kind of proxy server allows this?

Duplicated with How to use Socks 5 proxy with Apache HTT

Answer 1

Here is my complete Java code that supports both HTTP and HTTPS requests using SOCKS proxy.

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.net.Proxy;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.protocol.HttpClientContext;
import org.apache.http.config.Registry;
import org.apache.http.config.RegistryBuilder;
import org.apache.http.conn.socket.ConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.socket.PlainConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;
import org.apache.http.ssl.SSLContexts;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;

/**
 * How to send a HTTP or HTTPS request via SOCKS proxy.
 */
public class ClientExecuteSOCKS {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Registry reg = RegistryBuilder.create()
            .register("http", new MyHTTPConnectionSocketFactory())
            .register("https", new MyHTTPSConnectionSocketFactory(SSLContexts.createSystemDefault
                ()))
            .build();
        PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager cm = new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager(reg);
        try (CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom()
            .setConnectionManager(cm)
            .build()) {
            InetSocketAddress socksaddr = new InetSocketAddress("mysockshost", 1234);
            HttpClientContext context = HttpClientContext.create();
            context.setAttribute("socks.address", socksaddr);

            HttpHost target = new HttpHost("www.example.com/", 80, "http");
            HttpGet request = new HttpGet("/");

            System.out.println("Executing request " + request + " to " + target + " via SOCKS " +
                "proxy " + socksaddr);
            try (CloseableHttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(target, request, context)) {
                System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
                System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity(), StandardCharsets
                    .UTF_8));
            }
        }
    }

    static class MyHTTPConnectionSocketFactory extends PlainConnectionSocketFactory {
        @Override
        public Socket createSocket(final HttpContext context) throws IOException {
            InetSocketAddress socksaddr = (InetSocketAddress) context.getAttribute("socks.address");
            Proxy proxy = new Proxy(Proxy.Type.SOCKS, socksaddr);
            return new Socket(proxy);
        }
    }

    static class MyHTTPSConnectionSocketFactory extends SSLConnectionSocketFactory {
        public MyHTTPSConnectionSocketFactory(final SSLContext sslContext) {
            super(sslContext);
        }

        @Override
        public Socket createSocket(final HttpContext context) throws IOException {
            InetSocketAddress socksaddr = (InetSocketAddress) context.getAttribute("socks.address");
            Proxy proxy = new Proxy(Proxy.Type.SOCKS, socksaddr);
            return new Socket(proxy);
        }
    }
}