FTP with urllib2 behind a proxy

[Bob McCormick]

One more thing....John mentioned environment settings.....can someone point
to where these would be documented for FTP & Proxy?  I don't see them in 
urllib2.

thanks
bob


At 05:53 PM 2/24/2004 -0800, Bob McCormick wrote:
>Hello,
>         I came across this email thread, and I can't seem to get the 
> examples to work.
>         I am running Proxy+ proxy server.  It sets up HTTP proxy on port 
> 4480, cnad FTP proxy on 4421.
>         I'm not sure how to add the IP addr & host of the proxy server to 
> the authorization.  Is it something like:
>         proxyauth = "http://anonymous@me:137.134.5.20:4421"
>         proxy_handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler( { 'http' : proxyauth, 'ftp' 
> : proxyauth})
>
>When I try this, and then try 
>urllib2.urlopen("ftp://ftp.mathcs.emory.edu/pub/misc/emacs")
>I get
>
>urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (1, 'address family not supported')>
>
>Does this mean that I don't have an FTP handler defined?
>
>As far as I know, I don't need any special authorizaiton to access my 
>proxy server, just the IP and host.
>
>Also, the python doc mentioned in the FTPHandler that it uses blank for 
>user and password.  Is this really correct?  Will this work?  Most sites 
>want "anonymous" and an email addr.
>
>         Thanks for any help or pointers that you can provide.
>
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