urllib2 disable proxy

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Rob Wolfe wrote:

> Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis at gmx.net> writes:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I've been looking for a way to explicitly disable the use of proxies with
>> urllib2, no matter what the environment dictates. Unfortunately I can't find
>> a way in the documentation, and reading the source leads me to believe that
>> something like the following does the job:
>>
>> req.set_proxy(None,None)
>>
>> Where req is a urllib2.Request instance. So is there an official way of doing
>> this? Perhaps it should be added in the documentation?
>
> I believe that the recommended way is to use `urllib2.ProxyHandler`.
> Take a look at:
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml

Thanks for the pointer, I will use that way. However it seems rather 
non-elegant way to do something so simple and I was hoping not to mess 
with ProxyHandler, especially since I want *no* proxy... IMHO something 
like the following would be more elegant:

req.set_proxy('','http')

or

req.set_proxy(None,'http')


However these ways *don't* work. You think I should file a feature request 
somewhere or send this to the python-dev list?


Thank you for the help,
Dimitris


>
> HTH,
> Rob
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