web access through vpn client

[mark.seagoe at gmail.com]

Hi;

I am trying to retrieve financial data off website for stock market
analysis.  Just hobby not for pay.  I actually am impressed that
urllib2 and BeautifulSoup work pretty well to do what I want, and the
first little routine actually gets the data from the web page...
except if my VPN client is turned on.

I've looked around for a solution but can't find... perhaps I'm not
entering the right search words.  I don't even know where to start.
Can anyone suggest some good reading, or basic idea how to approach?

Thanks,
Mark