java - Gradle proxy configuration

Question

I need web access from Gradle through a proxy server to use the Gradle/Artifactory integration for Jenkins. To reduce possible causes for issues, I manually add the Artifactory plugin in build.gradle and run it from command line:

apply {
    apply from: "http://gradle.artifactoryonline.com/gradle/plugins/org/jfrog/buildinfo/build-info-extractor-gradle/1.0.1/artifactoryplugin-1.0.1.gradle"
}

Following this description I specified the following in .gradle/gradle.properties in my home directory:

systemProp.http.proxyHost=hostname
systemProp.http.proxyPort=8080
systemProp.http.proxyUser=de\username
systemProp.http.proxyPassword=xxx

With the above proxy configuration (that is otherwise known to work), it fails:

11:33:17.699 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] Caused by: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 407 for URL: http://gradle.artifactoryonline.com/gradle/plugins/org/jfrog/buildinfo/build-info-extractor-gradle/1.0.1/artifactoryplugin-1.0.1.gradle

I have two proxy servers to choose from, and one always responds with 407 (Proxy authentication required), the other with 502 (Bad gateway), so obviously, the proxyHost and proxyPort options are used.

As the user name (based on an Active Directory user) contains a backslash, I tried both \ and , but neither worked. The user specified is different from the user that is logged in to the machine and Active Directory. This user's credentials aren't valid for the proxy, so I need to be able to specify a different user.

Setting the same options in Jenkins' or Artifactory's GUI worked.

Answer 1

Refinement over Daniel's response:

HTTP Only Proxy configuration

gradlew -Dhttp.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttp.proxyPort=3128 "-Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=*.nonproxyrepos.com|localhost"

HTTPS Only Proxy configuration

gradlew -Dhttps.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttps.proxyPort=3129 "-Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=*.nonproxyrepos.com|localhost"

Both HTTP and HTTPS Proxy configuration

gradlew -Dhttp.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttp.proxyPort=3128 -Dhttps.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttps.proxyPort=3129 "-Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=*.nonproxyrepos.com|localhost"

Proxy configuration with user and password

gradlew -Dhttp.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttp.proxyPort=3128 - Dhttps.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttps.proxyPort=3129 -Dhttps.proxyUser=user -Dhttps.proxyPassword=pass -Dhttp.proxyUser=user -Dhttp.proxyPassword=pass -Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=host1.com|host2.com

worked for me (with gradle.properties in either homedir or project dir, build was still failing). Thanks for pointing the issue at gradle that gave this workaround. See reference doc at https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_environment.html#sec:accessing_the_web_via_a_proxy

Update You can also put these properties into gradle-wrapper.properties (see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50492027/474034).