httplib.InvalidURL: nonnumeric port: For characters in the proxy password in URL

[Fredrik Lundh]

Phoe6 wrote:
> Hi,
>      The following piece of code works properly when my proxy password
> contains characters[a-zA-Z0-9] etc. But when my proxy password
> contained something like '|\/|' , the httplib incorrectly indentified
> it as separator.

if you want to prevent the URI parser from treating something as part of 
the URI, you need to quote it:

    pwd = urllib.quote(pwd, "")

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