Python Behind a Squid Corporate Proxy on Windows

Larry Hale larzluv at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 18 14:43:26 EDT 2008


Thank you so much for the reply, but alas: I get the same results.
(urllib2 makes the initial request, Squid replies "Error 407: Proxy
Authentication Required", which urllib2 dutifully fails on/raises said
error...)

I do appreciate your time, though!  :)
-Larry


On Jul 18, 3:08 am, Chris <cwi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 17, 6:40 pm, Larry Hale <larz... at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Err, the line above should be:
>
> > proxy_handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler( { "http": "http://
> > myusername:passw... at webfilter.xyz.local:3128" } )
>
> > (Sorry!  :)
>
> some old code I wrote to download public domain info for our company,
> also through a squid proxy and this still works for me
>
> import urllib2, urllib
>
> proxy = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': 'http://
> username:password at proxy_url:proxy_port'})
> auth = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
> opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy, auth, urllib2.HTTPHandler)
> urllib2.install_opener(opener)
>
> conn = urllib2.urlopen('http://python.org')
> return_str = conn.read()
>
> fp = open('python.html','w').write(return_str)




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