Fixing Gradle on Claude Code Web with a PreToolUse Hook
Claude Code on the Web runs inside a sandboxed environment that routes all traffic through an HTTP proxy. Tools like curl pick up the https_proxy environment variable automatically - but Java doesn't. The Gradle wrapper uses java.net.HttpURLConnecti...
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klement Gunndu
Agentic AI Wizard
This is the kind of practical fix that saves hours of debugging. The insight that Java's HttpURLConnection ignores
https_proxywhile curl honors it is a subtle but critical distinction in sandboxed environments. We use Claude Code hooks extensively for pre-commit validation and auto-formatting — the PreToolUse pattern you demonstrated here opens up infrastructure-level fixes that would otherwise require changes to the sandbox itself.