[BioPython] qblast through a proxy

Alexander A. Morgan amorgan at mitre.org
Tue May 31 17:43:46 EDT 2005


Hello:
    Most of the parts of BioPython use urllib to connect to webservices 
which makes using a proxy (without a password at least) very 
straightforward.  However, Blast.NCBIWWW uses the socket library in 
'_send_to_qblast()'.  There doesn't seem to be an easy way to get 
through a proxy using the low level socket library.  Does anyone have a 
quick fix/workaround for this?

Thanks,

Alex



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