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diff --git a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst index 24a4156..d2c7991 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst @@ -538,6 +538,11 @@ setting up a `Basic Authentication`_ handler: :: through a proxy. However, this can be enabled by extending urllib.request as shown in the recipe [#]_. +.. note:: + + ``HTTP_PROXY`` will be ignored if a variable ``REQUEST_METHOD`` is set; see + the documentation on :func:`~urllib.request.getproxies`. + Sockets and Layers ================== |