public class PluginProxyUtil
extends Object

A utility class that gives applets the ability to detect proxy host settings. This was adapted from a post from Chris Forster on 20030227 to a Sun Java forum here: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=364342&tstart=120 The algorithm - which relies on Sun java plugin internal classes in some cases - was maintained, but the following changes were made: 1. Logging was used to allow control of debug type messages. 2. Reflection is used instead of direct references to Sun internal classes to avoid the need to have these classes in the CLASSPATH to compile. 3. Removed the use of global variables to allow this class to be used in a multi-threaded environment. 4. Add the use of exception to indicate to the caller when proxy detection failed as opposed to when no proxy is configured.

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