Often issues connecting to the Thingworx Experience Service from Thingworx Studio are related to more complex proxy configurations. One such configuration uses a .pac script that dynamically resolves the proxy based on the requested URL. Thingworx Studio has the ability to configure a proxy server but you have to explicitly specify one server URL, you can't replicate the settings in your internet connections when these use a .pac script. No worries - there is a workaround - Proxy-Vole at your rescue!
You can find Proxy Vole (https://proxy-vole.kenai.com/ ) on the Internet. It is a little java-based application that can be used to auto-resolve your proxy configuration. It has a command line and a UI frontend. The documentation is somewhat unstructured - for the test you only need a few of the steps:
- Download the Proxy Vole jar-with-dependencies
- Start the proxy vole application in a command shell using the following command:
java -cp ./proxy-vole-1.0.1-jar-with-dependencies.jar com.github.markusbernhardt.proxy.ui.ProxyTester- Enter the following in the dialog box:
4. Specify the resulting proxy URL in Thingworx Studio:
That's it!
If you still have issues, please post the log on the Developer Forum site.
A couple of changes are needed:
- Proxy-Vole is now available from here: https://github.com/MarkusBernhardt/proxy-vole. The kenai.com domain has been closed by Oracle.
- Download the latest jar-with-dependencies (version 1.0.5 instead of 1.0.1 linked in the article above).
- The corresponding command is then:
java -cp ./proxy-vole-1.0.5-jar-with-dependencies.jar com.github.markusbernhardt.proxy.ui.ProxyTester
- The Settings dialog in Studio has evolved and now provides the ability to specify user name and password beside the proxy server URL.
Settings dialog with proxy URL/User/Password
