Receiving Connection Time Out when trying to run REST Step

Products

• CA Application Test
• CA Continuous Application Insight (PathFinder)

Issue/Introduction

Receiving error below when executing REST Step

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| HTTP

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| Message:     java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect

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| Trapped Exception: Connection timed out: connect

| Trapped Message:   java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect

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STACK TRACE

java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect

Environment

WindowsDevTest 10.x

Cause

The Customer was using a proxy on the web browser.  This timeout was caused by DevTest not being able to reach the URL without the proxy information defined.

Resolution

Define the following in the local.properties

## ==============================================
## HTTP Proxy Server
## ==============================================
#lisa.http.webProxy.host=<machine name or ip>
##list of excluded machine names or ip addresses delimited by pipes, * wildcard accepted <machine name or ip>[|<machine name or ip>]*
lisa.http.webProxy.nonProxyHosts=127.0.0.1
#lisa.http.webProxy.port=

## ==============================================
## HTTPS Proxy Server
## ==============================================
#lisa.http.webProxy.ssl.host=<machine name or ip>
##list of excluded machine names or ip addresses delimited by pipes, * wildcard accepted <machine name or ip>[|<machine name or ip>]*
lisa.http.webProxy.ssl.nonProxyHosts=127.0.0.1
#lisa.http.webProxy.ssl.port=

Additional Information

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/devops/devtest-solutions/10-6/installing/installing-devtest-workstation/using-an-http-s-proxy-server-devtest-workstation.html