NTLM authentication using Commons HttpClient

Recently I wanted to access a site outside the firewall thru Apache commons HttpClient. The proxy server was using NTLM authentication.

Thankfully, HttpClient had support for NTLM authentication. Here's the code snippet for the same:
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HostConfiguration hConf= httpClient.getHostConfiguration();
hConf.setProxy("proxy.mycompany.com", 8080);

httpClient.getState().setProxyCredentials(
new AuthScope("proxy.mycompany.com", 8080, "domainName"),
new NTCredentials("username", "password","my_localhost","domainName")
);
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