Thanks for your comments. WHen you need urllib, and web2py.python makes outbound connections you should not need a proxy server or any proxy configuration as far as I can tell (and I am not sure about your setup). This looks more of a firewall issue.
On Feb 11, 5:19 am, whowhywhat <[email protected]> wrote: > web2py is the first framework i actually enjoy using. :) .. been > advocating it to everyone i meet these days. I sincerely thank the > entire web2py community for everything. > > I have been developing a small web2py application for intranet use at > the place where i work. During development i used windows (i carry > web2py on a thumb drive). At work we use a proxy for net access and in > windows i have no problems with web2py accessing the net using the > proxy. > I can use urllib to fetch webpages etc. > > To deploy the app i am using Ubuntu. I have deployed web2py using both > apache as well as Cherokee using WSGI. The application runs fine. > however the web2py environment is not able to fetch anything from the > internet. urllib does not fetch any webpages. I have explicitly set > the http_proxy environment variable (in /etc/environment, in the > Cherokee startup script). I need to fetch data from the web, mostly > for openID authentication. I am not sure what's wrong. > > how can i make web2py/python use the proxy server (http_proxy)?
