download_setuptools fails with authenticating proxy

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The download_setuptools uses module urllib2 to get the setuptools module. It isn't properly setup to handle an autheticating proxy. I'm not sure how to include/enable this support for your shipping product, but here is the code that I injected into download_setuptools to get it to work through my company's authenticating proxy server (at line 102 insert the following):

username = "myusername"
password = "mypassword"
authinfo = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
authinfo.add_password('', '', username, password)
proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({"http" : "http://%s:%s@proxy.mycompany.com:8080" % (username, password)})
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_support, authinfo, urllib2.HTTPHandler)

Edit username and password to the appropriate values.

I hope this helps in some small way. I haven't tried django yet (just finished getting the install to work :). I'll try django out soon and hope that it provides the solution that I'm currently searching for.

Good luck,
Brett Hunt

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Could an admin please sanitize that attachment. It has sensitive information in it and I just attached it without cleaning it up first.

Thanks, Brett Hunt

[Adrian Holovaty]

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[Adrian Holovaty]

Looks to be a setuptools bug, which they may have fixed by now. (I'm not sure...)