urllib2 getting a webapage authenticating proxy...

[Jeremy Hylton]

Adam <a at a.com> wrote in message news:<3D0DD287.7B221A42 at a.com>...
> this code doesnt work for me... i have replaced the proxy details for
> security... can anyone help... as i havent been able find any helpfull
> websites/examples for urllib2... is urllib2 what i realy want to use for
> this...
> 
> import urllib2
> 
> def get_page(url):
>  proxy =
> urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http':'http://userid:pass@proxy.com:port/'})
>  opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy)
>  site = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
>  print(site)
> 
> get_page('http://www.python.org/')

There is a SF patch that should fix this problem.  See
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=527518&group_id=5470&atid=305470
If it works, you might add a comment saying that it worked for you.

I expect this will be integrated in Python CVS soon, and should get
into future bug fix releases.

Jeremy