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diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex index 1cdfafdc5d..3901a9cf76 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex @@ -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 @@ -262,6 +262,10 @@ 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 manipulation is in module \refmodule{urlparse}\refstmodindex{urlparse}. |