I am using an http proxy and the Mechanize module. I initialize the mechanize object and set the proxy like so:
self.br = mechanize.Browser()
self.br.set_proxies({"http": proxyAddress}) #proxy address is like 1.1.1.1:8080
Then I open the site like so:
response = self.br.open("http://google.com")
My problem is that mechanize seems to be completely ignoring the proxy. If I debug and inspect the br object, under the proxy handler I can see my proxy settings. However, even if I give a bad proxy Mechanize just goes about its business like I never set a proxy. What gives?
edit:
I have also tried:
mechanize.install_opener(mechanize.build_opener(mechanize.ProxyHandler({'http': "127.0.0.1:99"})))
response = mechanize.urlopen("http://google.com")
And it seems to be ignoring my proxy as well. (I didn't even give it a valid proxy, shouldn't it fail on a URLError?)
Figured it out after talking on the email list:
import mechanize
browser = mechanize.Browser()
browser.set_proxies(proxies={"http": "myproxy.example.com:1234"},
proxy_bypass=lambda hostname: False)
If if you are trying to access https site then set proxy as https as follow
br = mechanize.Browser()
# Cookie Jar
cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar()
br.set_cookiejar(cj)
# Browser options
br.set_handle_equiv(True)
br.set_handle_gzip(True)
br.set_handle_redirect(True)
br.set_handle_referer(True)
br.set_handle_robots(False)
# Follows refresh 0 but not hangs on refresh > 0
br.set_handle_refresh(mechanize._http.HTTPRefreshProcessor(), max_time=1)
# Want debugging messages?
#br.set_debug_http(True)
#br.set_debug_redirects(True)
#br.set_debug_responses(True)
# User-Agent (this is cheating, ok?)
br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/4.0 (Compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.2; Trident/6.0)')]
br.set_proxies({"https": "XXX.XX.246.56:33835"})