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Does the app support http proxies?
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Set the http_proxy variable and export it. <br />
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Try these two commands:<br />
http_proxy=<a href="http://urltoyourproxy:port" rel="ugc">http://urltoyourproxy:port</a><br />
export http_proxy <br />
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Set the http_proxy variable and export it.

Try these two commands:
http_proxy=http://urltoyourproxy:port [http://urltoyourproxy:port]
export http_proxy




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Set the environmental variable HTTP_PROXY in your profile to your proxy:<br />
export HTTP_PROXY=<a href="http://host:port" rel="ugc">http://host:port</a><br />
If it requires authentication you can use export HTTP_PROXY=&quot;<a href="http://username:password@host:port" rel="ugc">http://username:password@host:port</a>&quot;
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Set the environmental variable HTTP_PROXY in your profile to your proxy:
export HTTP_PROXY=http://host:port [http://host:port]
If it requires authentication you can use export HTTP_PROXY="http://username:password@host:port [http://username:password@host:port]"

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We have a web app installed in Apache-Tomcat 6.0.18. &nbsp;Apache is installed on Red Hat AS4 u8 server.<br />
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The web app has the capability to connect to data on the internet using a http URL. &nbsp;The problem is the server is behind our firewall and cannot directly access the internet. &nbsp;The server can reach the internet via the proxy server. &nbsp;<br />
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How do I configure the server so outbound http traffic goes through the proxy server.
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We have a web app installed in Apache-Tomcat 6.0.18.  Apache is installed on Red Hat AS4 u8 server.

The web app has the capability to connect to data on the internet using a http URL.  The problem is the server is behind our firewall and cannot directly access the internet.  The server can reach the internet via the proxy server.  

How do I configure the server so outbound http traffic goes through the proxy server.

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