Another point that may be of relevance is that the passwords may have . in
it then one has to use %40 and other combinations for other special
characters like !#$ etc. I guess this add one more layer of complexity to
the issue being discussed here.
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Jason Swails <jason.swails.gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Daniel Sindhikara <sindhikara.gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Jason,
> > Just to clarify, I think the problem is "authenticated" proxies. I also
> > have had
> > no problem with my proxy setting the http_proxy environmental variable
> > but it seems Vaibhav's proxy requires username/password.
> > According to his e-mail he had the un/pwd set already.
> > >From what I gather in the docs urllib2 does support authenticated
> proxies.
> >
>
> My only experience using this was with an authenticated proxy, so I still
> think it works. The downside of the solution is that you need to set an
> environment variable containing your password (so you don't want it in your
> .bashrc file, and you'll probably want to clear the command from your
> history).
>
> export http_proxy="http://username:password.proxy_address:port"
>
> You have to make sure the username, password, proxy address, and the port
> number are all correct...
>
> Of course I can't speak for all proxies, just the one I was using last
> summer (but it was a corporate Proxy, for what that's worth...)
>
> All the best,
> Jason
>
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Department of Medicinal Chemistry
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