[Tutor] http through squid

[Marco A. Sousa]

> 
> I am trying to do a URL request from behind a firewall.  If I understand
> it correctly (and I'll use generic symbols here)  the proxy server is
> x.y.z at port 123.  The Squid proxy-caching software is running.  I can
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> 
> Does anyone have a working script that works in a similar squid/proxy
> configuration?
>

You can try put some environment variables telling about your proxy.
It worked for me (linux, python 2.1):

import urllib,os

os.putenv ('http_proxy','10.15.50.3:3128')

dic={'name':'python','email':'python@python.net'}
url = urllib.urlopen('http://somesite.net/',urllib.urlencode(dic))

Also take a look at this page:
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-urllib.html

Hope that helps.