[BioPython] Using BioPython Entrez from behind proxy-based firewall

[bar tomas]

Your solution does work!! Thanks a lot.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk>wrote:

>  On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:22 PM, bar tomas <bartomas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using BioPython to access NCBI Entrez databases.
> > I'm doing this from behind a proxy-based firewall.
> > Do you know how I can pass on my firewall parameters so that BioPython
> > handles them?
> >
> > Thanks a lot
>
> Hi,
>
> Bio.Entrez is just using the python urllib to connect to the NCBI
> Entrez servers, and that should support a password-less proxy.  Right
> now the Biopython code which uses the urllib.urlopen function doesn't
> directly let you specify the proxy.  However, consulting the python
> documentation you should still be able to do this by setting an
> environment variable:
> http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/module-urllib.html
>
> Does that work?
>
> Peter
>