Using a python web client behind a proxy (urllib and twisted.web)

[Matthijs]

I have been trying to make a script that will download several rss feeds
to my computer. The only problem I have is that I have to go through a
proxy.

First I tried using urllib (python 2.4, win32) but I found that the
http_proxy and no_proxy code were not implemented for win32. I have made
changes to urllib and urllib2 so that they use the proxy set in either
the windows registry or in an environment variable.

Question: How can I get this code added to the python distribution?

Then I found this script:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/277099

which uses twisted.web and does asynchronous requests, which is nice
when you want to download a lot of rss feeds. But again it doesn't
support a proxy, that I could find.

Question: Am i right that twisted.web.client does not support proxying?

Kind regards,
Matthijs

ps. I am just starting with Python

[Mike Meyer]

Matthijs <ne********@high.speedlinq.nl> writes:

I have been trying to make a script that will download several rss
feeds to my computer. The only problem I have is that I have to go
through a proxy.

First I tried using urllib (python 2.4, win32) but I found that the
http_proxy and no_proxy code were not implemented for win32. I have
made changes to urllib and urllib2 so that they use the proxy set in
either the windows registry or in an environment variable.

Question: How can I get this code added to the python distribution?

submit a patch to <URL: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470 >.

<mike
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