patch HTTP connector to support proxy authentication if proxyUsername and proxyPassword provided.

• Key: AMQ-1514
• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sam Zhou
• Component/s: Connector
• Affects Version/s: 4.1.1

Description

Could not find a way to configure an http proxy host/port with user/pass authentication.

I am supplying a patch to allow this to be part of the options specified as part of the URI, for example,

uri="static://(http://myserver:80?proxyHost=my.proxy.com%26proxyPort=80%26proxyUsername=username%26proxyPassword=password)"

This is an enhancement based on #AMQ-1099.

Comments

[Timo Roessner]

Hey folks,

i stumbled into this problem and here is my solution:

---- Prehistory: ------

1.)

i believe the two afore submitted source files above will NOT work with current proxy-Servers (tested with squid 2.6.14 running on Ubuntu 7.10)

I think that this is due to the fact that they use a quite dated authentication method. Connection requests using this method are denied by squid.

2.)

I am not sure if the http-connector worked at all, because in AMQ 5.1 i had to add two libraries to get the broker to work when using the http-connector (see below)

------ Possible solution: ------

I wrote a patch which uses

org.apache.commons.httpclient.UsernamePasswordCredentials;

and

org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthScope;

for supplying the credentials to the proxy.

I tested it using:

• AMQ v. 5.1 (stable release)
• two brokers running on sles 9
• squid 2.6.14 running on Ubuntu 7.10
• a network-connector which looked like that:

<networkConnector name="outbound_http" uri="static://(http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:61617?proxyHost=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx&amp;proxyPort=3128&amp;proxyUser=test&amp;proxyPassword=test)" networkTTL="5"/>

Tests were ok and so far there weren't any problems with the patch.

------ Applying the patch: ------

-> download the patch (the attachment amq-proxy-cred.patch above)
-> download amq-source V.5.1
-> unpack amq
Then patch via:
cd $unpacked_amq_source
patch -p1 <amq-proxy-cred.patch

------ Build the sources as usual: ------

export MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx512M
cd AMQ_SRC_DIR
mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true -e

------ Install the broker: ------

-> Installation as usual BUT:

You have to add the following two libraries:

• xstream-1.3.jar
• commons-codec-1.3.jar

to the brokers classpath. Simply copy them to $AMQ_HOME/lib.

[Timo Roessner]

Patch to enable broker connections over authenticating http-proxies.