I'm working on learning how to use urllib2 to use a proxy server. I've looked through the postings on this group, and it's been helpful. I have not, however, found complete documentation on the add_password() functions. Here's what I've got so far:
#======================================== import urllib2 url = 'http://some.server/form.php' proxy_url = 'http://202.62.252.3:8080' # A publicly available anonymous proxy server proxy_handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler( {'http': proxy_url } ) proxy_auth_handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler() proxy_auth_handler.add_password('realm', 'host', 'username', 'password') opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_handler, proxy_auth_handler) urllib2.install_opener(opener) try: handler = urllib2.urlopen(url) except urllib2.URLError: print "whoops!" else: print handler.read() #======================================= It works, but I don't really know what I'm doing with the proxy_auth_handler part. Specifying username and password make sense, but I haven't found documentation on what 'realm' and 'host' are for. Shouldn't username & password be sufficient? Thanks, --Steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
