From: dnagata at creo.com (Dale Nagata)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 15:53:07 -0700
Subject: Does the standard ftplib module support proxies?
References: <37110c85.7753709@news.demon.co.uk>
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Paul Moore wrote:
> 
> The header says it all... I've looked in the manual, but I can't see
> anything about proxy (firewall) support, one way or another.
> 
> Actually, the same question applies to httplib and urllib.
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul Moore.

It depends on what kind of proxy.
I've found it works fine if the proxy is the nice simple kind
that lets you connect to the proxy host on FTP port 21 and specify 
the remote ftp location using the form user at site.
I haven't tried to make it work with any other kind (and there
are quite a few).


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