Hi there, XWiki Watch uses the feed plugin to get the feeds from external sources. The feed plugin currently uses the jvm proxy settings so the only thing you have to do is to set the java System proxy when starting XWiki. You can do that either through: -Djava.net.useSystemProxies for a java 1.5+ jvm, which tells the jvm to use the system proxy settings or by supplying: -Dhttp.proxyHost=your_proxy -Dhttp.proxyPort=your_port. You can read more about it at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/net/properties.html or http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/jcc/Proxies.pdf Have fun using XWatch, Anca