> Is there any module in python to open https > sites through a proxy.
yes, you can use "urllib2". from the urllib2 docs: "The default is to read the list of proxies from the environment variables" So if you have a proxy setup, it should detect it from your environment vars. If you want to specify something different, you want to build an opener with a ProxyHandler: http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html#urllib2.ProxyHandler -Corey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list