urllib.urlopen and proxies

[Siggy Brentrup]

"Chris Gonnerman" <chris.gonnerman at usa.net> writes:

> It *appears* (from reading the source) that username and password
> information for
> the proxy server must be passed as part of the URL:
> 
>     http://username:password@my.host.com/index.html
> 

I suggest using urllib2, changing the proxy setup described in the
module's docstring to

  proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({"http" :
                                        "http://user:pw@proxy:port"})

Untested too, since my proxy doesn't require authorization.

HTWorks
  Siggy