Module urllib

Aahz Maruch aahz at netcom.com
Wed Dec 22 12:19:54 EST 1999


In article <3860e4da.0 at news.cyberway.com.sg>,
Ng Pheng Siong <ngps at post1.com> wrote:
>
>3. Your web proxy demands http basic authentication before doing
>its business for you. I think an environmental variable like this
>
>    http_proxy=http://proxy_user:proxy_password@proxy.../
>
>should work. Of course, this exposes your proxy username/password
>in your environment. 

I'm not positive, but you should be able to set the environment variable
from within your Python script.
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