I originally posted a question on the users mailing list, but now that I've dug deeper, it's perhaps more of a developers topic.
I was having a problem getting Plucker Desktop (v1.6.2.0) to access web URLs on the Intranet at work. I was getting an "Access Denied" page. However, it works fine at home. Plucker Desktop uses the Python parser. So I did some digging, and added a few debug and header prints to Retriever.py and ran it as a script trying again to access a URL on the Intranet. The added headers (added in Retriever.py) included "User-agent" and "Accept" (note that no proxy header was added, and that I do not have environment variables starting in "HTTP_PROXY"). I'm not sure what other headers may have been added by the URLOpener in urllib. Response headers included all the usual as well as "proxy-authenticate" and "proxy-connection". This made me think it was still trying to authenticate with the proxy. So I figured out that I needed to include proxy information despite only accessing pages on the Intranet. Furthermore, turns out I needed to have the "http://"; on the front of the proxy name, which I didn't realize at first, and caused my debugging work to take longer. This leaves me with a couple of potential developer questions/issues. 1) Why is it trying to authenticate with the proxy when I am only accessing pages on the Intranet? Should it be? 2) As a convenience to users, why not tack on "http://"; to the front of the proxy name if it's missing? Other programs, such as browsers, do not require this. I would have liked to have seen all the headers on the request, but I'm not sure how to do that. I'm an app developer, not a network guru, and I have no experience in Python either, other than what I've learned while debugging my problem. ___________________________________________________________ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list plucker-dev@rubberchicken.org http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
