Using urlopen with a proxy server requiring authentication

[Moshe Zadka]

On 2 Apr 2001 16:01:29 GMT, dick.streefland at tasking.com (Dick Streefland) wrote:
 
> For a proxy authorization, you need to send an additional
> "Proxy-authorization" header with the base64 "encryption" of your
> username and password. I don't think you can do that with urllib,
> but you can use the httplib module instead:
> 
>   import binascii
>   cookie = binascii.b2a_base64("username:password")
>   ...
>   h.putheader('Proxy-authorization', 'Basic %s' % cookie)

Or use 2.1's urllib2 which support Proxy authentication easily and
transparently.
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