New submission from Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com>: The proxy support code in urllib is imho too specific and cannot easily support dynamic proxy configuration using a proxy.pac file.
That is, the code assumes that there is at most one proxy per protocol, while this is not quite true in practice. A proxy.pac can refer different URLs to different proxies (or exclude some from proxying). This could be solved by adding a new proxy hook to urllib, something like: def getproxies_for_url(url) -> [info, ...] That is, the argument is the string for an URL, the result is a list of proxies that can be used to fetch the URL. This hook would allow us to provide a hook on OSX that enables python scripts to use the system proxy settings, even when those are complex (such as by using proxy autoconfiguration). ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 100573 nosy: ronaldoussoren severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: urllib proxy interface is too limited type: feature request versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8083> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
