Sending web requests through a proxy server

You would like to browse web pages through a proxy. If you have configured your browser with a proxy server and that works, you can try this recipe. Otherwise, you can use any of the public proxy servers available on the internet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Getting ready

You need to have access to a proxy server. You can find a free proxy server by searching on Google or on any other search engine. Here, for the sake of demonstration, we have used 165.24.10.8.

How to do it...

Let us send our HTTP request through a public domain proxy server.

Listing 4.5 explains proxying web requests across a proxy server as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python 
# Python Network Programming Cookbook -- Chapter - 4 
# This program requires Python 3.5.2 or any later version 
# It may run on any other version with/without modifications. 
# 
# Follow the comments inline to make it run on Python 2.7.x. 
 
import urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error 
# Comment out the above line and uncomment...