wordnik/wordnik-python — Issue #7: API doesn't honor proxy settings
Author: jaraco
Created: 2011-10-11 19:20:00+00:00
State: open

Our Linux server is located behind a proxy server, direct requests are blocked, and we have configured the environment variables for directing requests through that proxy server.

Wordnik doesn't honor this setting. According to this thread (http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t325113-httplib-and-proxy.html), one should use urllib2 instead of httplib, as urllib2 honors the environment variables.

In any case, Wordnik appears unusable in this mode.