Re: [Htmlunit-user] SocksSocketFactory extends final PlainSocketFactory

[Ben S. <sub...@be...>]

>>>>>> I cannot compile HTMLUnit, since SocksSocketFactory extends final
>>>>>> PlainSocketFactory. How can I get around this?

>>>>> You are missing an HTTPClient library jar on your class path or the one
>>>>> you have is out-of-date.
>>>>>
>>>>> Careful, there’s more than one HTTPClient out there.

>>>> Thanks David, to get it right, can you point me towards the right one.
>>>> There is an client in my path but maybe the wrong one.

>>> Chances are you have a typo in your class path if you think you have one
>>> available.

>> That doesn't seem to be the case, since I get the following error message:
>>
>>    [javac] /nas/home3/b/bsmyth/workspace/src/com/gargoylesoftware/htmlunit/SocksSocketFactory.java:33:
>> cannot inherit from final
>> org.apache.http.conn.scheme.PlainSocketFactory
>>    [javac] class SocksSocketFactory extends PlainSocketFactory {
>>
>> To clarify, the htmlunit source is from htmlunit-2.13-src.zip and
>> httpclient-4.3.1.jar is extracted from htmlunit-2.13-bin.zip.

> This again tells me that somehow your libraries in your class path are set up wrongly.
> I’m afraid I will have to defer to wiser heads on this one.

I have solved the problem: there were two instances of
PlainSocketFactory in my classpath! (I diagnosed the problem as
follows, namely, removed the instance of PlainSocketFactory.class from
httpclient-4.3.1.jar and recompiled, knowing that if I got the same
compilation error, then there must have been another instances of
PlainSocketFactory lurking around somewhere.)

Thanks for your help.


Best regards,

Ben