System.setProperty(“java.net.useSystemProxies”, “true”);

otherwise the code above does not give me any proxies. Just gives back DirectConnection as the proxy-type.

If you just want to use whatever the system proxy setting is and your are just using the standard java libraries for connection, setting the above property seems to enough.

HttpClient 3 is not Java 5 aware however and doesn’t pick up the Proxy setting (I think HttpClient 4 will do this in future). So you have to run the above code to extract out the proxyHost and proxyPort to use.