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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2000-09-15 04:12:56 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2000-09-15 04:12:56 (GMT) |
commit | 81c1735809f55a876b8a821a7b9646304afca675 (patch) | |
tree | 0a685236e615145869d26cd88601fa1ccb2449f1 /Doc/lib | |
parent | ae90f8da24d825285a0d12023412e96b58084f6c (diff) | |
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Add item to the list of limitations that points out the lack of support
for authenticated proxies. This is noted elsewhere, but this makes it
easier to find.
Fix typo where it was already mentioned.
This closes SourceForge bug #110619.
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-rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/liburllib.tex | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex index 1cdfafd..3901a9c 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ must in standard \file{application/x-www-form-urlencoded} format; see the \function{urlencode()} function below. The \function{urlopen()} function works transparently with proxies -whicd do not require authentication. In a \UNIX{} or Windows +which do not require authentication. In a \UNIX{} or Windows environment, set the \envvar{http_proxy}, \envvar{ftp_proxy} or \envvar{gopher_proxy} environment variables to a URL that identifies the proxy server before starting the Python interpreter. For example @@ -262,6 +262,10 @@ no easy way to extract it. If the returned data is HTML, you can use the module \refmodule{htmllib}\refstmodindex{htmllib} to parse it. \item +This module does not support the use of proxies which require +authentication. This may be implemented in the future. + +\item Although the \module{urllib} module contains (undocumented) routines to parse and unparse URL strings, the recommended interface for URL manipulation is in module \refmodule{urlparse}\refstmodindex{urlparse}. |