R: http connection via proxy server

[Luca Calderano]

Great! it works....

thanks a lot.

     Luca Calderano


Fredrik Lundh wrote:

>does this work better?
>
>    import os
>    import urllib
>
>    os.environ["http_proxy"] = "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80"
>    myurl =
"http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/download/pages/US-N95.html"
>    page = urllib.urlopen(myurl).read()


Luca Calderano wrote:

> I'm trying to connect to a web page via my proxy server
> using the following code
>
> ..............................
> import os
> import httplib
>
> os.system("Set %http_proxy% = \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80")
> myurl =
"securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/download/pages/US-N95.html"
> req=httplib.HTTP(myurl)
> req.putrequest("GET","/")
> req.endheaders()
> ................................