HTTP Proxy Basic Authentication

JDK 8u111 disabled Basic authentication for HTTPS tunneling, this means that if you use a network proxy with Apache NetBeans and this proxy is using Basic authentication you won’t be able to access HTTPS based servers.

As a workaround for this JDK feature, you can add the option

-Djdk.http.auth.tunneling.disabledSchemes=""

to the Apache NetBeans etc/netbeans.conf configuration file, in the netbeans_default_options entry, like so:

netbeans_default_options="-J-XX:+UseStringDeduplication -J-Xss2m -J-Djdk.http.auth.tunneling.disabledSchemes=\"\" -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true (...)

We don’t want to set this as a default options because it may pose a security problem.

This was reported as issue #3748 in github.

Apache NetBeans 26

HTTP Proxy Basic Authentication