mark.sea...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi;
I am trying to retrieve financial data off website for stock market
analysis. Just hobby not for pay. I actually am impressed that
urllib2 and BeautifulSoup work pretty well to do what I want, and the
first little routine actually gets the data from the web page...
except if my VPN client is turned on.
I've looked around for a solution but can't find... perhaps I'm not
entering the right search words. I don't even know where to start.
Can anyone suggest some good reading, or basic idea how to approach?
Thanks,
Mark
When the VPN client is on, can you actually still browse the 'classical'
way to the website in question?
I ask this because many cooperate VPN clients have a way of shutting
down all other access besides to the VPN server (which is very annoying
but I can see the logic behind it).
If that is the case your VPN network might have a webproxy which needs
to be configured to continue browsing when connected to the VPN. For
python you can automate this by checking for access to the proxy and use
it if it is there.
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