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How can I use a proxy (I'm behind a firewall) to get HTML pages from the net?

Nov 2nd, 2004 08:08
Jonathan Schroder, unknown unknown, Charlie Derr, Graham Bleach

You have to set an environment variable. 
 
It is http_proxy 
 
# this usually works 
import os, urllib 
os.environ["http_proxy"]="http://firewall.bad.com:9999" 
urllib.urlretrieve('http://www.python.org/') 
# 
 
This should put a copy of said page into a temp file. 
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