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diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex index 75ee310..77dfb8f 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex @@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ see the \function{urlencode()} function below. The \function{urlopen()} function works transparently with proxies 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 +environment, set the \envvar{http_proxy}, or \envvar{ftp_proxy} +environment variables to a URL that identifies the proxy server before starting the Python interpreter. For example (the \character{\%} is the command prompt): @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ function uses \function{unquote()} to decode \var{path}. \begin{classdesc}{URLopener}{\optional{proxies\optional{, **x509}}} Base class for opening and reading URLs. Unless you need to support opening objects using schemes other than \file{http:}, \file{ftp:}, -\file{gopher:} or \file{file:}, you probably want to use +or \file{file:}, you probably want to use \class{FancyURLopener}. By default, the \class{URLopener} class sends a @@ -324,9 +324,8 @@ Restrictions: \item Currently, only the following protocols are supported: HTTP, (versions -0.9 and 1.0), Gopher (but not Gopher-+), FTP, and local files. +0.9 and 1.0), FTP, and local files. \indexii{HTTP}{protocol} -\indexii{Gopher}{protocol} \indexii{FTP}{protocol} \item @@ -355,9 +354,7 @@ is the raw data returned by the server. This may be binary data (such as an image), plain text or (for example) HTML\index{HTML}. The HTTP\indexii{HTTP}{protocol} protocol provides type information in the reply header, which can be inspected by looking at the -\mailheader{Content-Type} header. For the -Gopher\indexii{Gopher}{protocol} protocol, type information is encoded -in the URL; there is currently no easy way to extract it. If the +\mailheader{Content-Type} header. If the returned data is HTML, you can use the module \refmodule{htmllib}\refstmodindex{htmllib} to parse it. |