Proxy authentication required

[Chris Rebert]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:38 AM, gervaz <gervaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've got to download some web pages but I'm behind a proxy. So far
> this is what I've used without any successful result receiving the
> error: "urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication
> Required ( The ISA Server requires auth
> orization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy filter is
> denied.  )":
>
> hc = urllib.request.HTTPCookieProcessor()
> hp = urllib.request.ProxyHandler({"http": "10.242.38.251:80",
> "username": "domain\username", "password": "password"})

Remember that backslash is used for string escapes in Python; so that
should be "domain\\username" in order to get 1 literal backslash. I
suspect this is the cause of your proxy authentication problem.

> opener = urllib.request.build_opener(hc, hp)

Are you sure that's the right order for the handlers? (I don't know myself.)

> urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.google.it/")

Cheers,
Chris
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