hello all, I just maybe hit a bug in both urllib and urllib2, actually urllib doesn't support proxy authentication, and if you setup the http_proxy env var to http_proxy=http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port/ and https_proxy=$http_proxy i get a traceback :
Traceback (most recent call last): File "test_urllib.py", line 2, in ? urllib.urlopen("https://sf.net/") File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 82, in urlopen return opener.open(url) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 190, in open return getattr(self, name)(url) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 313, in open_http h.endheaders() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 798, in endheaders self._send_output() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 679, in _send_output self.send(msg) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 646, in send self.connect() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 614, in connect socket.SOCK_STREAM): IOError: [Errno socket error] (-2, 'Name or service not known') now with urllib2, it goes beyond that and connect and authenticate to the proxy, however, instead of using CONNECT with https, it simply does a GET, which result in a error 501 with a squid proxy: Traceback (most recent call last): File "test_urllib.py", line 2, in ? urllib2.urlopen("https://sf.net/") File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 130, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 358, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 376, in _open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 573, in <lambda> lambda r, proxy=url, type=type, meth=self.proxy_open: \ File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 597, in proxy_open return self.parent.open(req) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 364, in open response = meth(req, response) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 471, in http_response response = self.parent.error( File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 402, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 480, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp) urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 501: Not Implemented this is with python-2.4.3 thank you for your help -- Ali Sabil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list