使用系统代理设置:

java -Djava.net.useSystemProxies=true ...

或编程:

System.setProperty("java.net.useSystemProxies", "true");

来源:http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/doc-files/net-properties.html

如果你想要“Socks Proxy”，通知“socksProxyHost”和“socksProxyPort”虚拟机参数。

e.g.

java -DsocksProxyHost=127.0.0.1 -DsocksProxyPort=8080 org.example.Main

正如在其他回答中指出的那样，如果您需要使用经过身份验证的代理，纯粹使用命令行变量是没有可靠的方法来做到这一点的——如果您正在使用别人的应用程序，并且不想弄乱源代码，这是很烦人的。

Will Iverson在使用HttpProxy连接到具有抢先身份验证的主机上提出了有用的建议，使用代理管理工具如proxfier (http://www.proxifier.com/ for Mac OS X和Windows)来处理这个问题。

例如，使用proxfier，您可以将其设置为仅拦截要通过其(经过身份验证的)代理进行管理和重定向的java命令。在这种情况下，你需要将proxyHost和proxyPort的值设置为空，例如传入-Dhttp。proxyHost = -Dhttp。proxyPort=到您的java命令。

You can utilize the http.proxy* JVM variables if you're within a standalone JVM but you SHOULD NOT modify their startup scripts and/or do this within your application server (except maybe jboss or tomcat). Instead you should utilize the JAVA Proxy API (not System.setProperty) or utilize the vendor's own configuration options. Both WebSphere and WebLogic have very defined ways of setting up the proxies that are far more powerful than the J2SE one. Additionally, for WebSphere and WebLogic you will likely break your application server in little ways by overriding the startup scripts (particularly the server's interop processes as you might be telling them to use your proxy as well...).

这是一个对我有用的完整示例-注意，对于HTTPS有单独的属性(根据https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/net/proxies.html)。

下面的代码向https://api.myip.com API发送请求并打印响应。

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    System.setProperty("java.net.useSystemProxies", "true");
    final String proxyUser = "proxy-user";
    final String proxyPass = "password123";
    final String host = "some.proxy.io";
    final Integer port = 50201;

    // http
    System.setProperty("http.proxyHost",host);
    System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", String.valueOf(port));
    System.setProperty("http.proxyUser", proxyUser);
    System.setProperty("http.proxyPassword", proxyPass);

    // https
    System.setProperty("https.proxyHost",host);
    System.setProperty("https.proxyPort", String.valueOf(port));
    System.setProperty("https.proxyUser", proxyUser);
    System.setProperty("https.proxyPassword", proxyPass);

    System.setProperty("jdk.http.auth.tunneling.disabledSchemes", "");
    System.setProperty("jdk.https.auth.tunneling.disabledSchemes", "");

    Authenticator.setDefault(new Authenticator() {
                @Override
                public PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
                    return new PasswordAuthentication(proxyUser, proxyPass.toCharArray());
                }
        }
    );

    // create and send a https request to myip.com API
    URL url = new URL("https://api.myip.com");
    HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
    connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
    int status = connection.getResponseCode();
    
    // read the response
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
    String responseLine;
    StringBuffer responseContent = new StringBuffer();
    while ((responseLine = in.readLine()) != null) 
        responseContent.append(responseLine);
    
    in.close();
    connection.disconnect();
    
    // print the response
    System.out.println(status);
    System.out.println(responseContent);
}

这是一个小更新，但是从Java 7开始，现在可以通过编程方式创建代理连接，而不是通过系统属性。这可能是有用的，如果:

代理需要在程序运行时动态旋转 需要使用多个并行代理 或者只是让你的代码更干净:)

这是groovy中一个人为的例子:

// proxy configuration read from file resource under "proxyFileName"
String proxyFileName = "proxy.txt"
String proxyPort = "1234"
String url = "http://www.promised.land"
File testProxyFile = new File(proxyFileName)
URLConnection connection

if (!testProxyFile.exists()) {

    logger.debug "proxyFileName doesn't exist.  Bypassing connection via proxy."
    connection = url.toURL().openConnection()

} else {
    String proxyAddress = testProxyFile.text
    connection = url.toURL().openConnection(new Proxy(Proxy.Type.HTTP, new InetSocketAddress(proxyAddress, proxyPort)))
}

try {
    connection.connect()
}
catch (Exception e) {
    logger.error e.printStackTrace()
}

全部参考: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/net/proxies.html