[Wikibots-l] bots and proxy

[Rob W.W. Hooft]

Andre Engels wrote:
> 2005/10/21, Koen Huybrechts <huybkoen at gmail.com>:
> 
>>I'm using the wikibots regulary, but sometimes I am behind a
>>proxy-server, and then the bot won't work... Is there a way to get it
>>working also behind the proxy?? Is this function already implemented?
> 
> 
> I have had complaints about that before, but I have no idea how to
> resolve it, sorry.

urllib.py gets the environment variables XXXX_proxy and uses those. For 
us, this would mean that setting http_proxy in the environment to 
something like http://proxy.host.domain:80/ should make the bot go 
through that proxy. I guess this works the same on Windows systems as it 
does on unix, but I have never tried it.

Rob

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