Processing doesn't work behind authenticated proxy

[oggywan]

under Processing 2.1

After spending a lot of time trying to find a solution to load an image on the web from behind a proxy, I only stumbled accross incomplete/false solutions.
Here is what is working for me though: I (simply) added

System.setProperty("proxyHost", "myProxyURL");
System.setProperty("proxyPort", "8080");

in my .pde file. Note that, unlike what the preferences.txt file (located in users/me/AppData/Roaming/Processing/) says, the added fields are "proxyHost" (and not "proxy.host"), and "proxyPort" (and not "proxy.port").

[dimkir]

When you use for example proxyPort like in System.setProperty("proxyPort", "8080") you are actually changing JVM proxy settings (which are Java settings). And java takes proxyPort not proxy.port

Whereas when you're looking at preferences.txt it is a Processing configuration (not Java configuration) and processing is taking parameters from the file in format proxy.port. What should be happenign is that when processing IDE is started it should read parameters from preferences.txt and make calls to

System.setProperty("proxyPort", "8080")
System.setProperty("proxyHost", "myProxyURL");

But it doesn't always seem the case.