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SOCKS Proxy No Longer Working With Oracle JDBC Thin Driver (Doc ID 2589708.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 21, 2022

Applies to:

JDBC - Version 12.2.0.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

SOCKS proxy no longer works with JDBC 12.2 and up.
Previously, the "socksProxyHost" and "socksProxyPort" Java Properties were used to allow the JDBC thin driver to connect to a databases through a SOCKS proxy. This worked in versions 11.x and 12.1.x.
Starting in 12.2.x, these settings no longer take effect, and connections are not sent through the SOCKS proxy. The problem also exists in version 18.x.

For example, programmatically:



Changes

 

Cause

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