Proxy with urllib2

Question

I open the urls with

site = urllib2.urlopen('http://google.com')

And what I wanna do is connect the same way with a proxy I got somwhere telling me

site = urllib2.urlopen('http://google.com', proxies={'http':'127.0.0.1'})

but that hadent worked either

I know urllib2 has something like a proxy handler but I cant recall that function

Answer 1

You have to install a ProxyHandler

urllib2.install_opener(
    urllib2.build_opener(
        urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': '127.0.0.1'})
    )
)
urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com')

Answer 2

proxy= urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': '127.0.0.1'})
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com')