Autodiscovery of proxy settings from a python script

[Andy Robinson]

"Robin Becker" <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:YFx3GIA6KRi8EwK8 at jessikat.demon.co.uk...
> in fact inside urllib there seems to be some support built in for the
> registry attack under nt.
>
> ie urllib.getproxies() is supposed to return a dictionary mapping
> services to proxies urls. Doesn't on my machine though.
> --
Mine neither.  Does anyone get anything back from this on win32?  I am
hampered in my researcg by not actually being behind a corporate firewall
for a change :-)

- Andy