On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:38:03 +1100, Astan Chee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, I have a proxy server that requires authentication on a non-standard
>port and Im trying to connect to it via socket.connect()
>I tried doing this:
>import socket
>server = ("username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]",1234)
>s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>s.connect(server)
>
>I keep getting the
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module>
> s.connect(server)
> File "<string>", line 1, in connect
>gaierror: (11001, 'getaddrinfo failed')
>
>What does this mean? and can I actually use username/password to connect
>using a socket in python?
You can't specify credentials to a proxy this way. The first element of
the address tuple for an AF_INET socket is a hostname or IP address. If
you have a proxy which requires authentication, you must authenticate
after you have established the connection by sending bytes over the socket.
I don't know what kind of proxy you have, so I don't know what bytes you
have to send.
Jean-Paul
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