Processing doesn't work with proxies

[jimaobian]

Operation system: Mac OS X 10.9.4
Processing Version: 2.2.1

When using the SOCKS Proxy in Network configuration, Processing cannot start the Application normally.
Once the SOCKS Proxy is Off, Processing can run smoothly

[benfry]

Have you tried the preference settings described in #1476?

[jimaobian]

It seems not working.

If SOCK Proxy is checked and the Proxy sever is OFF, any of the Application even those in the example cannot run.

If SOCK Proxy is checked and the Proxy sever is ON, Processing can run at the first time but Application cannot run. However I cannot start Processing itself later. Deleting the preference settings can reproduce this condition.

It seems that the following two settings make the problem

instance_server.key=0.5921595334371619
instance_server.port=51710

[benfry]

Ok, someone will have to find a fix. I'm not in a proxy server environment so I can't really test this sort of thing, but maybe someone can help with it. It looks like there are some ways to auto-detect proxies as well, I've added a couple notes to todo.txt.

[Akarshit]

The socks proxy and port that we put into preference.txt is not getting used anywhere(in Preference.java) , i will do PR to fix this and hope that this bug is solved but someone will have to check as i don't have access to mac.

[benfry]

It may be getting set in PApplet (which is used by the PDE as well). It was working when I put that code in, but I wonder if it was removed when the Preferences window was refactored, or we switched to the new Debug/XQMode or something like that.

[Akarshit]

@benfry i was not able to find the code setting up socks proxy for the PDE, though i made a PR that sets socks proxy from preference.txt . This got the things working on my system and hopefully would work on others too.

[benfry]

Thanks, incorporated for 3.0a8.