[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: About proxy setup on accessing update site?

[Jacek Pospychala <jacek.pospychala@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
I may be wrong, but usually option "Use IE setup" in context of proxy, 
means that program should ask IE for proxy. It's specially useful if 
your company makes use of proxy scripts, that IE supports. I am not sure 
if eg. wget under cygwin with "IE setup" introduces itself over HTTP as 
IE and not wget.

Eclipse access to Internet is usually handled directly by JVM, so it 
uses headers like this:
User-Agent: Java/1.6.0_01

You can manipulate this by adding -Duser.agent="Something that you 
prefer" to command line, or to eclipse.ini
But I've noticed, it actually uses something like this then:

User-Agent: "Something that you prefer" Java/1.6.0_01

One exception is Eclipse internal browser - it's backed by IE, so it 
will present itself as IE.

Btw, I wonder, how are you going to access HTTPS sites, as it's not 
possible to determine what agent is used over encrypted connection.

Carfield Yim wrote:
> Look like my company network will check the HTTP agent to see if it is 
> IE or not, and all none IE connection will be blocked. Is there any 
> solution about this? I can see there is proxy settup at eclipse 
> preference, can I set anything there to simulate IE??
>
> For cygwin, there is a proxy setting call "Use IE setup", which work 
> just fine for my company network.