How to resolve external packages with spark-shell when behind a corporate proxy?

Question

I would like to run spark-shell with a external package behind a corporate proxy. Unfortunately external packages passed via --packages option are not resolved.

Answer 1

This worked for me in spark 1.6.1:

bin\spark-shell --driver-java-options "-Dhttp.proxyHost= -Dhttp.proxyPort= -Dhttps.proxyHost= -Dhttps.proxyPort=" --packages