The standard FTP protocol does not supporty any kind of proxy-ing feature natively. The only closest thing to the concept of a "proxy" we can find in the FTP protocol is the site-to-site transfer feature: http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/wiki/FAQ#What_is_FXP? ...but it's something different.
By taking a look at your code, though, this is out of question anyway since you can't even connect to the server, let alone send proxy-like (non-standard) commands. I'd focus on investigating whether it's something with the internal network and forget about proxy-related problems since from here I can connect to indexftp.barcap.com. As for urllib's proxy option I'd say it's only valid for HTTP protocol. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ 2011/1/21 RizlaJ <razajaffre...@gmail.com>: > Hi Tom, Giampaolo, > > Thank you both for your swift replies. I have asked our IT dept to see > if it is the firewall that is blocking the FTP. They are working on > that side of things. > > However I would have thought that the following or some version of it > would have worked:- > >>>> import urllib >>>> proxies = ({'ftp':proxyserveraddress'}) >>>> some_url = ({'ftp':'indexftp.barcap.com'}) >>>> filehandle = urllib.urlopen(some_url, proxies=proxies) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#51>", line 1, in <module> > filehandle = urllib.urlopen(some_url, proxies=proxies) > File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 84, in urlopen > return opener.open(url) > File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 177, in open > fullurl = unwrap(toBytes(fullurl)) > File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 1026, in unwrap > url = url.strip() > AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'strip' > > However as you can see there is an error - is this again related to > the firewall do you think? > > Sorry for asking stupid questions! and thank you for your help in > advance. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
