Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > can you post the code you're using to build the URI ? > Okay. This piece of code fetches a page from a particular site. As I am behind a firewall, I have to communicate through a proxy.
# Set the Proxy Address PROXY_IP = "10.1.9.4:80" # Trying with linear way proxy_user = 'user_name' proxy_password_orig='|\/|pc' proxy_password = urllib.quote(proxy_password_orig) #proxy_password = r'|\/|pr0c' # Setup the Proxy with urllib2 proxy_url = 'http://' + proxy_user + ':' + proxy_password + '@' + PROXY_IP proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({"http":proxy_url}) opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_support,urllib2.HTTPHandler) urllib2.install_opener(opener) # Read the ngsite tdate = str(datetime.date.today()) sepdate = re.compile('\d\d(\d\d)-(\d+)-(\d+)') year = sepdate.match(tdate).group(1) month = sepdate.match(tdate).group(2) day = sepdate.match(tdate).group(3) site = r"http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/wallpaper.cgi?day=" + day + "&month=" + month + "&year=" + year print site data = urllib2.urlopen(site) -- Senthil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list