About detecting proxy setting using rome api

Question

The below provides an error when in lan behind a proxy ,but works properly outside lan/proxy. Please let me know how I can rectify it

I used the code to detect proxy setting and it gave

Detecting Windows/IE proxy setting using Java

I am getting: proxy hostname : DIRECT No Proxy Does this mean I am not behind a Proxy Server?

I'm trying to use java rome-fetcher to acquire rss feeds for processing. Everything works fine when I have direct internet access.

However, I need to be able to run my application behind a proxy server.

The below provides an error when in lan ,but works properly outside lan Exception in thread "main" java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)

import java.util.Properties;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

import com.sun.syndication.feed.synd.SyndEntry;
import com.sun.syndication.feed.synd.SyndFeed;
import com.sun.syndication.io.SyndFeedInput;
import com.sun.syndication.io.SyndFeedOutput;
import com.sun.syndication.io.XmlReader;


public class RomeLibraryExample {
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    URL url = new URL("http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss");

   //System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", "DIRECT");
   // System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", "8080");


    HttpURLConnection httpcon = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection(Proxy.NO_PROXY);
    // Reading the feed



    SyndFeedInput input = new SyndFeedInput();
    SyndFeed feed = input.build(new XmlReader(httpcon));

    List<SyndEntry> entries = feed.getEntries();
    Iterator<SyndEntry> itEntries = entries.iterator();

    while (itEntries.hasNext()) {
        SyndEntry entry = itEntries.next();
        System.out.println("Title: " + entry.getTitle());
        System.out.println("Link: " + entry.getLink());
        System.out.println("Author: " + entry.getAuthor());
        System.out.println("Publish Date: " + entry.getPublishedDate());
        System.out.println("Description: " + entry.getDescription().getValue());
        System.out.println();
    }


}

}