Proxy with urllib2

Question

I open urls with:

site = urllib2.urlopen(\'http://google.com\')

And what I want to do is connect the same way with a proxy I got somewhere telli

Answer 1

To use the default system proxies (e.g. from the http_support environment variable), the following works for the current request (without installing it into urllib2 globally):

url = 'http://www.example.com/'
proxy = urllib2.ProxyHandler()
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy)
in_ = opener.open(url)
in_.read()