I agree this has nothing to do with tomcat but a misconfiguration by the admin on Proxy Server
if you want a working solution you'll have to bypass the admin's configuration and try it with a 'clean' tomcat install Martin ______________________________________________ Disclaimer and confidentiality note Everything in this e-mail and any attachments relates to the official business of Sender. This transmission is of a confidential nature and Sender does not endorse distribution to any party other than intended recipient. Sender does not necessarily endorse content contained within this transmission. > Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:12:12 +0000 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Tomcat Server .pac Script configuration for outgoing connection. > > All, > > Tomcat - 5.0.28, Java - 1.4.2, OS - Windows XP > > We have a web application that sets up a local tomcat server with an > application deployed into the client machine. To complete the setup, the > application on Tomcat needs to access the internet from the client > machine and verify with the source system. But the client machine are within > a corporate network and needs .pac script to access internet. How can we > configure Tomcat for all its applications to use a pac (proxy Auto > Configuration) script to determine the proxy and access the internet? The > installation currently fails at the point verification. > > Please let me know if you need further info. > > Any help be much appreciated. > > Thanks > Eswar _________________________________________________________________ Store, manage and share up to 5GB with Windows Live SkyDrive. http://skydrive.live.com/welcome.aspx?provision=1?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_skydrive_102008