[Python-Dev] Extending xmlrpclib to handle HTTP proxies (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:31:24 +0100

mal wrote:

Doesn't urllib already support this out of the box ? You can use its machinery for finding out the proxy settings and then add them to Transport as needed.

urllib doesn't allow you to override content-types and other things that you need to talk proper XML-RPC, and my "request body" [1] patch was rejected by GvR.

I'm pretty sure you can use urllib2 for this purpose, though, but I haven't looked deeper into that (mostly because people has been promising me proxy patches for years...)

(Bill, note that Python CVS isn't the "master repository" for xmlrpclib; if you come up with a clean and nice urllib2-based proxy transport, you can just mail it to me)

  1. http://effbot.org/zone/python-urllib-requestbody.htm