Gradle failing to download distribution behind company proxy

Question

Trying to get Jenkins behind my corp proxy to build my java library project and it keeps timing out during download of the distribution. I've followed many guides on trying to get gradle to utilize proxy settings in the gradle.properties file build it doesn't seem to work. I know the proxyHost and proxyPort is correct. Is there something that I'm overlooking or is it a different issue other than the proxy?

build.gradle

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'maven'
apply plugin: 'maven-publish'
apply plugin: 'idea'

sourceCompatibility = 1.8

def baseVersion = "1.0"
def jenkinsBuildNumber = System.getenv('BUILD_NUMBER')
version = jenkinsBuildNumber != null ? baseVersion + "." + jenkinsBuildNumber : baseVersion

println 'Version: ' + version

group = 'com.company.MyLibrary'

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

apply plugin: 'groovy'

jar {
    from "LICENSE.md"
}

dependencies {
    compile "com.google.guava:guava:19.0"
    compile "junit:junit:4.12"
    compile "org.assertj:assertj-core:3.2.0"
    compile "org.mockito:mockito-core:2.0.31-beta"
    compile "org.powermock:powermock-module-junit4:1.6.2"
    compile "org.powermock:powermock-api-mockito:1.6.2"
    testCompile "com.google.guava:guava:19.0"
    testCompile "junit:junit:4.12"
    testCompile "org.assertj:assertj-core:3.2.0"
    testCompile "org.mockito:mockito-core:2.0.31-beta"
    testCompile "org.powermock:powermock-module-junit4:1.6.2"
    testCompile "org.powermock:powermock-api-mockito:1.6.2"
}

task sourcesJar(type: Jar) {
    dependsOn classes
    classifier 'sources'
    from sourceSets.main.allSource
}

task javadocJar(type: Jar, dependsOn: javadoc) {
    classifier = 'javadoc'
    from javadoc.destinationDir
}

artifacts {
    archives sourcesJar
    archives javadocJar
}

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '2.10'
    distributionUrl = "http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-${gradleVersion}-all.zip"
}

gradle.properties

systemProp.https.proxyHost=proxy.company.net
systemProp.https.proxyPort=8989
systemProp.http.proxyHost=proxy.company.net
systemProp.http.proxyPort=8989
systemProp.https.nonProxyHosts=*.company.com|localhost
org.gradle.daemon=true

Jenkins console output

20:45:09 Started by an SCM change
20:45:09 [EnvInject] - Loading node environment variables.
20:45:09 Building on master in workspace /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/MyLibrary
20:45:09 [WS-CLEANUP] Deleting project workspace...
20:45:09 [WS-CLEANUP] Done
20:45:09 Cloning the remote Git repository
20:45:09 Cloning repository ssh://[email protected]/~jon/MyLibrary.git
20:45:09  > git init /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/MyLibrary # timeout=10
20:45:09 Fetching upstream changes from ssh://[email protected]/~jon/MyLibrary.git
20:45:09  > git --version # timeout=10
20:45:09  > git -c core.askpass=true fetch --tags --progress ssh://[email protected]/~jon/MyLibrary.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
20:45:10  > git config remote.origin.url ssh://[email protected]/~jon/MyLibrary.git # timeout=10
20:45:10  > git config --add remote.origin.fetch +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* # timeout=10
20:45:10  > git config remote.origin.url ssh://[email protected]/~jon/MyLibrary.git # timeout=10
20:45:10 Fetching upstream changes from ssh://[email protected]/~jon/MyLibrary.git
20:45:10  > git -c core.askpass=true fetch --tags --progress ssh://[email protected]/~jon/MyLibrary.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
20:45:11 Seen branch in repository origin/master
20:45:11 Seen 1 remote branch
20:45:11 Checking out Revision 2ece1927e5fb1d368aba28a107f6fe2c2accb9fa (origin/master)
20:45:11  > git config core.sparsecheckout # timeout=10
20:45:11  > git checkout -f 2ece1927e5fb1d368aba28a107f6fe2c2accb9fa
20:45:11  > git rev-list 66fe56731f935be83c91e38ced426aea7bba0b8f # timeout=10
20:45:11 [EnvInject] - Injecting environment variables from a build step.
20:45:11 [Gradle] - Launching build.
20:45:11 [MyLibrary] $ /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/MyLibrary/gradlew -Dcommit=master clean test
20:45:11 Downloading http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.10-all.zip
20:47:18 
20:47:18 Exception in thread "main" java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out
20:47:18    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
20:47:18    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350)
20:47:18    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206)
20:47:18    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188)
20:47:18    at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
20:47:18    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589)
20:47:18    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:538)
20:47:18    at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:180)
20:47:18    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:432)
20:47:18    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:527)
20:47:18    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:211)
20:47:18    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:308)
20:47:18    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:1175)
20:47:18    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect0(HttpURLConnection.java:1123)
20:47:18    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:998)
20:47:18    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:932)
20:47:18    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1512)
20:47:18    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1440)
20:47:18    at org.gradle.wrapper.Download.downloadInternal(Download.java:58)
20:47:18    at org.gradle.wrapper.Download.download(Download.java:44)
20:47:18    at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:61)
20:47:18    at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:48)
20:47:18    at org.gradle.wrapper.ExclusiveFileAccessManager.access(ExclusiveFileAccessManager.java:65)
20:47:18    at org.gradle.wrapper.Install.createDist(Install.java:48)
20:47:18    at org.gradle.wrapper.WrapperExecutor.execute(WrapperExecutor.java:128)
20:47:18    at org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain.main(GradleWrapperMain.java:61)
20:47:18 Build step 'Invoke Gradle script' changed build result to FAILURE
20:47:18 Build step 'Invoke Gradle script' marked build as failure
20:47:18 Finished: FAILURE

Answer 1

My solution was to update my global ~/.gradle/gradle.properties file with the correct proxy settings:

org.gradle.daemon=true
systemProp.https.proxyHost=proxy.company.net
systemProp.https.proxyPort=8181
systemProp.http.proxyHost=proxy.company.net
systemProp.http.proxyPort=8181
systemProp.https.nonProxyHosts=*.company.com|localhost

this is in effect, the same as passing these as command line args to gradlew (./gradlew -Dhttp.proxyHost=xxx -Dhttp.proxyPort=xxx -Dhttps.proxyHost=xxx -Dhttps.proxyPort=xxx

Answer 2

For me it worked by using the following lines to the gradle.properties application folder

systemProp.https.proxyHost=proxy.company.net 
systemProp.https.proxyPort=8080 
systemProp.https.proxyPassword=
systemProp.http.proxyHost=proxy.company.net 
systemProp.http.proxyPort=8080
systemProp.http.proxyPassword=
systemProp.https.nonProxyHosts=*.company.com|localhost

Do not forgot to enter also your password for the proxy. Hope this helps