Python - Using a proxy for HTTP requests

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Examples

#!/usr/bin/env python
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# urllib2 opener to connection through a proxy using the CONNECT method, (useful for SSL)
# tested with python 2.4

import urllib2
import urllib
import httplib
import socket

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class ProxyHTTPConnection(httplib.HTTPConnection):
    _ports = {'http' : 80, 'https' : 443}

    def request(self, method, url, body=None, headers={}):
        #request is called before connect, so can interpret url and get
        #real host/port to be used to make CONNECT request to proxy
        proto, rest = urllib.splittype(url)
        if proto is None:
            raise ValueError, "unknown URL type: %s" % url
        #get host
        host, rest = urllib.splithost(rest)
        #try to get port
        host, port = urllib.splitport(host)
        #if port is not defined try to get from proto
        if port is None:
            try:
                port = self._ports[proto]
            except KeyError:
                raise ValueError, "unknown protocol for: %s" % url
        self._real_host = host
        self._real_port = port
        httplib.HTTPConnection.request(self, method, url, body, headers)

    def connect(self):
        httplib.HTTPConnection.connect(self)
        #send proxy CONNECT request
        self.send("CONNECT %s:%d HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n" % (self._real_host, self._real_port))
        #expect a HTTP/1.0 200 Connection established
        response = self.response_class(self.sock, strict=self.strict, method=self._method)
        (version, code, message) = response._read_status()
        #probably here we can handle auth requests...
        if code != 200:
            #proxy returned and error, abort connection, and raise exception
            self.close()
            raise socket.error, "Proxy connection failed: %d %s" % (code, message.strip())
        #eat up header block from proxy....
        while True:
            #should not use directly fp probablu
            line = response.fp.readline()
            if line == '\r\n': break

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class ProxyHTTPSConnection(ProxyHTTPConnection):
    default_port = 443

    def __init__(self, host, port = None, key_file = None, cert_file = None, strict = None
):
        ProxyHTTPConnection.__init__(self, host, port)
        self.key_file = key_file
        self.cert_file = cert_file

    def connect(self):
        ProxyHTTPConnection.connect(self)
        #make the sock ssl-aware
        ssl = socket.ssl(self.sock, self.key_file, self.cert_file)
        self.sock = httplib.FakeSocket(self.sock, ssl)

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

class ConnectHTTPHandler(urllib2.HTTPHandler):

    def do_open(self, http_class, req):
        return urllib2.HTTPHandler.do_open(self, ProxyHTTPConnection, req)

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class ConnectHTTPSHandler(urllib2.HTTPSHandler):

    def do_open(self, http_class, req):
        return urllib2.HTTPSHandler.do_open(self, ProxyHTTPSConnection, req)

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if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys

    opener = urllib2.build_opener(ConnectHTTPHandler, ConnectHTTPSHandler)

    urllib2.install_opener(opener)

    req = urllib2.Request(url='https://www.telstra.com/')

    req.set_proxy('proxy:8080', 'http')

    f = urllib2.urlopen(req)

    print f.read()

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