Connection failure due to proxy problems

Hi All,

Please suggest me that how to identify that any connection failure exception is caused due to proxy problems. I mean how can i differentiate the other connection failures vs proxy.

Objective: I have to display a message to user in my application (desktop app) saying that 'not able to connect to server due to proxy problems' if any problems occured in connecting to a site due to local proxy issues.

and also displaying different messages for connection request time out, session time out and etc.

Please let suggest the approach or any example will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
-Ravi T

Can this help:

Java Tips - How to detect Proxy Settings for Internet Connection

Check javadoc for ProxySelector class

there is method:

Code:

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[B]connectFailed[/B]
public abstract void connectFailed(URI uri,
                                  SocketAddress sa,
                                  IOException ioe)

Called to indicate that a connection could not be established to a proxy/socks server.
An implementation of this method can temporarily remove the proxies or reorder
 the sequence of proxies returned by select(String, String), using the address and they kind of IOException given.

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Hi FON,

Thanks for your quick response. I have implemented custom proxy select to override connectFailed() method. But it never called, even if i given incorrect proxy host name.

Can you please suggest that how can i validate given proxy details and identify the problem.

Please find my sample code in attachments.

When i have tested the program with valid proxy host, port and incorrect credentials of proxy. It is displaying response like below. Which is expected behaviour and useful for me.

Response msg=Proxy Authentication Required
Response Code=407


Thanks,
Ravi T