Thanks. My problem was not how to use a proxy server but how
to not use the IE proxy :)
BTW, I'm not a fan of the way urllib2 uses a proxy particularly.
I think it's really unneccesarily complicated. I think it should be
something like this:
def urlopen(url, proxy='')
And if you want to use a pro
jlist wrote:
>
> I found out why. I set a proxy in IE and I didn't know
> ActiveState Python use IE proxy!
>
> > I'm running ActiveState Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It used
> > to work fine. Today however I get (10061, 'Connection refused')
> > for any site I try with urllib.urlopen().
>
switching
jlist wrote:
My guess is urllib.urlopen() wraps the wininet calls, which share
IE proxy settings.
urllib doesn't use wininet, but it does fetch the proxy settings from
the Windows registry.
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My guess is urllib.urlopen() wraps the wininet calls, which share
IE proxy settings.
> Perhaps IE's proxy settings are effectively setting the Windows system
> networking proxy settings?
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jlist wrote:
I found out why. I set a proxy in IE and I didn't know
ActiveState Python use IE proxy!
I'm running ActiveState Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It used
to work fine. Today however I get (10061, 'Connection refused')
for any site I try with urllib.urlopen().
Perhaps IE's proxy settings
On Aug 20, 10:06 am, "jlist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running ActiveState Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It used
> to work fine. Today however I get (10061, 'Connection refused')
> for any site I try with urllib.urlopen().
May be the host is Listening on the port you are connecting to or the
ho
I found out why. I set a proxy in IE and I didn't know
ActiveState Python use IE proxy!
> I'm running ActiveState Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It used
> to work fine. Today however I get (10061, 'Connection refused')
> for any site I try with urllib.urlopen().
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