Enable system proxies by default on Linux?

[Chris Hegarty]

Mark,

> On 25 Sep 2019, at 19:52, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
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> ...
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> The URLConnection and HttpClient APIs already use the system’s default
> ProxySelector.  What other APIs might require checking?

Ignoring SOCKS, that should be it.

> Do we care about SOCKS proxies?  (Are those in broad use?

In general, I would say that SOCKS is not that widely used.

>  I have no
> idea.)  Making every TCP connection check for a system default SOCKS
> proxy could be going too far in terms of compatibility impact, and
> anyway solving this problem for http, https, and ftp should address
> most of the pain.

Agreed. Whatever we do there should have no affect on SOCKS.

> Perhaps this is more a matter of test clean-up than anything else.

For the tests I filed 8231504 - "Update networking tests to avoid
implicit dependency on the system proxies”, which is currently out for
review. It should clean up most of the accidental proxy dependencies.

> I’ll make this change and run some tests ...


Great. Thanks.

-Chris.