[Windows 7 64 bit; Python 2.7]
If I try to use Urllib2, I get this error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\cYanide\Documents\Python Challenge\1\1.py", line 7, in <module>
response = urllib2.urlopen('http://python.org/')
File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 400, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 513, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 438, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 372, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 521, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
**urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication Required**
Now, I'm behind a college proxy which requires authentication so that's probably the reason why this is happening. But isn't Urllib2 supposed to pull the authentication and proxy information from the system settings?
I understand there's some extra code I can insert into my program to 'hardcode' the proxy information in the program but I really don't want to do that unless it's the last resort. It would hinder the portability of the program across computers with different authentication IDs and Passwords in the college.