problems with a proxy & authentication

[Rupert Kolb]

Anthony_Barker wrote:
> I am having problems with python and our company's proxy server, which
> requires  authentication.
 >
[...]
 > import urllib2
[...]
> 
> Both perl and wget work. wget only supports Basic Authentication, so I
> assume it is the same. Thinking it might be a network type issue I
> changed the domain names to IP addresses. (results follow)
> 
> Any help would be appreciated................

My comment does not solve the problem above, but:

In urllib2 there is proxy support.

What about ftplib?

Is there anybody who would like to implement proxy support for the
ftplib, similar to perl (or at least wget)?
Maybe there should be code for different proxy types.

--> needs some hours, if he/she is familiar with it ;-)
     I would need some weeks :-(

-- 
Rupert Kolb