How to open a socket through proxy ?

[arnab321]

e.g. for google.com, we have to open a socket on "socket://google.com:80" and send the request "GET / HTTP/1.1". what connection string and request headers do i have to send to open this site with a proxy, say x.x.x.x on port 9999?

[emceenugget]

would this link be of any help? Connect through a Proxy - Real's Java How-to

sorry, but i haven't worked with connections in about a year. don't remember much about them

[arnab321]

ok, thanks for the info...i thought i could just modify the headers to make the connection pass through a proxy. and i want to do this in jme which just ignores the "http.proxyHost" property. Anyways, i have found another, rather long and roundabout solution for this.