RC and http proxy with authorization fails

[routeconverter]

At the office, I have to use a http proxy with authentification as part of our security policy.

I have the same problem here. I've solved it with manually logging in to the security solution in the Internet Explorer before starting RouteConverter. Maybe this helps for your problem, too?

- When starting, three instances of "Sicherheitsausnahmefehler" - java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: socket" appear

Please dump them here in the forum, I'd like to have a look at them.

- after clicking "ok", RC powers up, but:
-- map view on the left side does not appear

That's the job of the security solution: blocking access if it's HTTP Proxy is not used to enforce it is used. Thus the connection to Google Maps from RouteConverter is blocked.

-- when using right click -> Add coords, the same error appears again, and additional a message from RC: "Can't connect to SOCKS proxy:Connection refused: connect" appears

Funny, an exception from the console would be helpful. Have a look a the FAQ how to locate the log file.

In Firefox (my default browser), the proxy parameters are set and work fine.

RouteConverter always uses the IE on Windows since Firefox is not embeddable.

I think the problem may be the authorization to the proxy because that is not part of the browser configuration, and RC or Java does not ask for username / pw.

That is my guess, too.