Re: ProxySelector2

Oliver:  I've just released
https://bitbucket.org/phansson/netbeansnetworkauthenticator which is
meant to fix the problems you mention. You can either use this as-is
or steal the idea and provide your own Authenticator.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Oliver Rettig <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hallo Peter,
>
> very thanks for your detailed mail. That is very interesting for because. I
> run into trouble behind proxies with serveral netbeans platform applications
> (the NebeansIDE and also OpenSim). What is happening from time to time is that
> the gui freezes during the start process. Sometimes I can see a small window
> behind the main application window which asks for credentials for the proxy
> configuration. In the case of the ide the default configuration in options/proxy
> is "autodetect". If the application cauld be started once I can change the
> configuration to a fixed one with fix credentials and proxy host url. If this
> configuration was successful it always starts correct. In the case of the
> OpenSim application there is no possibility to in the GUI to make this
> configuration. So often it is not possible to start the app.
>
> It looks for me that, the small dialog which ask for credentions is a modal
> dialog and sometimes blocks the further starting process but it is not visible
> - mayebe it is behind the main application window.
>
> Do you know the properties where netbeans saves the configuration of the proxy?
>
> Any chance to fix this bug. The problem is that it is difficult to reproduce. I
> can not reproduce it on my developing PC.
>
> best regards
> Oliver
>
>> If NetBeans IDE is not able connect to Internet then you'll not see content
>> in the "Start Page" tab. This really the best test if NetBeans IDE can
>> access Internet or not.
>>
>> I can tell from your log output that your site is using WPAD method to
>> discover the location of your site's PAC file. (which in your case seems to
>> reside on your intranet on address http://wpad/wpad.dat). You can actually
>> download the PAC file and view it as it is plain text JavaScript. Anyway,
>> in this sense your site is pretty main stream compared to any other
>> corporate site.
>>
>> Every time an URL is called NetBeans will evaluate this little JavaScript
>> file. This is true both with and without the plugin. The plugin improves a
>> lot on this. Without the plugin PAC file evaluation just doesn't work in NB
>> if your are using Java 8. As you may be aware Java 8 included a new and
>> improved JavaScript engine called Nashorn. However this particular piece in
>> NB core code was made long before Java 8 became available so it was
>> developed and tested against another JavaScript engine ... and now the code
>> just doesn't work anymore (bug 245116). The other reason is that the NB
>> core code in this area doesn't implement all the mandatory PAC JavaScript
>> functions, say for example the script calls JavaScript function
>> dnsResolve() (which the PAC standard mandates to exist, and guess what:
>> many, many PAC scripts out there indeed calls this function) then the proxy
>> resolution will silently fail in NB core, that is if you are NOT using the
>> plugin.  Ok, I'll stop with the reasons why you should be using the plugin.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Anyway, to get closer to a resolution you'll need to enable some logging.
>> Go to your NetBeans IDE installation directory and locate the file
>> etc/netbeans.conf. Now edit the "netbeans_default_options" variable so that
>> you append to it as follows:
>>
>> netbeans_default_options="........
>> -J-Dorg.netbeans.core2.network.proxy.level=FINEST"
>>
>> Make sure the plugin is installed. Restart your IDE and wait 1-2 minutes
>> and then post all relevant lines from messages log here. Those lines
>> relevant would all be containing "org.netbeans.core2.network.proxy".
>>
>> If you want - out of curiosity - to do the same but WITHOUT the plugin
>> (i.e. using bare NetBeans) then it would be
>> "org.netbeans.core.network.proxy.level=FINEST" instead but core NB code
>> does less logging than my plugin. Still helpful though.
>>
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Casqueiro Gilles <
>>
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hello Peter,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Yes I can, in Chrome and Firefox the internet connection works fine with
>> > the auto-detect proxy settings.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Here are probably the relevant lines of the log file:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > INFO [org.netbeans.core2.network.proxy.NetworkProxyReloader]: System
>> > network proxy resolver: Windows
>> >
>> > INFO [org.netbeans.core2.network.proxy.windows.WindowsNetworkProxy]:
>> > Windows system proxy resolver: auto detect
>> >
>> > INFO [org.netbeans.core2.network.proxy.NetworkProxyReloader]: System
>> > network proxy reloading succeeded.
>> >
>> > INFO [org.netbeans.core2.network.proxy.ProxyAutoConfig]: PAC file
>> > evaluator using:  LanguageName="ECMAScript" LanguageVersion="ECMA - 262
>> > Edition 5.1" EngineName="Oracle Nashorn" EngineVersion="1.8.0_60"
>> >
>> > INFO [org.netbeans.core2.network.proxy.NetworkProxyReloader]: System
>> > network proxy - mode: auto
>> >
>> > INFO [org.netbeans.core2.network.proxy.NetworkProxyReloader]: System
>> > network proxy - pac url: http://wpad/wpad.dat
>> >
>> > INFO [org.netbeans.core2.network.proxy.NetworkProxyReloader]: System
>> > network proxy TEST - http host: blablabla.proxy.mycompany.blabla
>> >
>> > INFO [org.netbeans.core2.network.proxy.NetworkProxyReloader]: System
>> > network proxy TEST - http port: 8080
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Even if it is written in these lines that the proxy was found, Netbeans
>> > isn’t actually able to connect to internet. For example, the “Test
>> > connection” button in Tools/Option fails. And I have error messages
>> > related
>> > to the internet connection when I try to update or install a plugin. Do
>> > Netbeans know how to resolve this host name into an ip address? My DNS
>> > work
>> > fine in the Windows command line.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Gilles
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > *From:* Peter Hansson [mailto:[email protected]]
>> > *Sent:* vendredi 15 avril 2016 17:38
>> > *To:* [email protected]
>> > *Subject:* [platform-dev] Re: ProxySelector2
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hello Gilles,
>> >
>> > I'm the author of this plugin.  If you get same issue with or without the
>> > plugin installed then there must be something else going on.
>> >
>> > You can send me the messages log from the IDE (with the plugin installed
>> > and after the IDE has been restarted and up for 1-2 minutes) and I'll be
>> > happy to look at it.
>> >
>> > The purpose of the plugin is to be on par with what modern browsers is
>> > able to do when it comes to detect and choose proxy without a lot of
>> > configuration hassle.  So if you can make your internet connection work in
>> > IE or Chrome with only "Automatically detect proxy" in Windows settings
>> > then the same should be true for the IDE with the plugin installed.  Can
>> > you ??
>> >
>> > Peter
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Casqueiro Gilles <
>> > [email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello everyone,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Does anyone successfully used the project “ProxySelector2”
>> > https://bitbucket.org/phansson/netbeansproxy2/overview, also available as
>> > a plugin for Netbeans here:
>> > http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/55258/?show=true ?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > First I tried to use the plugin on my Netbeans IDE installation on
>> > Windows. When I specify manually the address and port of the proxy either
>> > in Netbeans or in the Windows settings, the internet connection works. But
>> > if I choose “System proxy”  in Netbeans and “Automatically detect proxy”
>> > in
>> > Windows settings, which are default values I think, it fails to connect.
>> > Same result with and without the plugin. Maybe I misunderstood how to use
>> > it?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Note: Our proxy is apparently a Microsoft solution, but I don’t know that
>> > much about it.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Gilles
>> >
>> >
>> >
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