See : http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/f1ba0de2c739127c/f694e00b1253da1e
For urllib you can pass in the 'proxies={}' keyword to the urlopen function. This disables proxy use. Unfortunately it *doesn't* work for urllib2 which is where I need it. Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list