Commit abb26e8f authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

Add item to the list of limitations that points out the lack of support

for authenticated proxies.  This is noted elsewhere, but this makes it
easier to find.

Fix typo where it was already mentioned.

This closes SourceForge bug #110619.
parent 0514e903
......@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ must in standard \file{application/x-www-form-urlencoded} format;
see the \function{urlencode()} function below.
The \function{urlopen()} function works transparently with proxies
whicd do not require authentication. In a \UNIX{} or Windows
which do not require authentication. In a \UNIX{} or Windows
environment, set the \envvar{http_proxy}, \envvar{ftp_proxy} or
\envvar{gopher_proxy} environment variables to a URL that identifies
the proxy server before starting the Python interpreter. For example
......@@ -261,6 +261,10 @@ protocol, type information is encoded in the URL; there is currently
no easy way to extract it. If the returned data is HTML, you can use
the module \refmodule{htmllib}\refstmodindex{htmllib} to parse it.
\item
This module does not support the use of proxies which require
authentication. This may be implemented in the future.
\item
Although the \module{urllib} module contains (undocumented) routines
to parse and unparse URL strings, the recommended interface for URL
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