Posted by Jmm on Nov 22, 2013; 3:00pm
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Initializing-FOPDF-behind-a-proxy-tp1038p1056.html

(my apologies for the silly question and wasted bandwidth. It was late )

I found the solution myself. For the record:

Gradle doesn't pick up proxy settings from the OS as one would expect. The proxy must configured in the ~/.gradle/gradle.properties file in the same manner as Maven's proxy is configured in the settings.xml.

Gradle proxy settings are described in details here : http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/build_environment.html (in section 20.2 in particular)

Jmm