Is there a proxy-enabled version of httplib.py anywhere?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Tony McDonald <tony.mcdonald at ncl.ac.uk> wrote:
> The subject says it all really - I believe that I'm supposed to use urllib
> rather than httplib, but what can you do when urllib calls httplib to do
> some calls! :(

set the http_proxy environment variable,
and be done with it? :)

(urllib implements the proxy stuff on top of
httplib.  see the code for details; especially
the getproxies function).

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