Unable to tunnel through proxy. Proxy returns “HTTP/1.1 407” via https

Question

I am faced with a curious behaviour of java6/8. I try to tunnel through a proxy which needs basic user authentication. Doing this by the standard java Authenticator. If I tr

Answer 1

You have to edit the variables jdk.http.auth.tunneling.disabledSchemes and jdk.http.auth.proxying.disabledSchemes to blank like this:

jdk.http.auth.tunneling.disabledSchemes=
jdk.http.auth.proxying.disabledSchemes=

In my case I found in this file

jdk1.8.0_111/jre/lib/net.properties