Python Proxy

[wiersbr]

I have never programmed python, however need to create a proxy of sorts. This would be easy in ASP , even easier in PHP..I am sure it is just as easy in Python...but how?

I need to be able to pass the script a URL, have it read the url and pass the document directly back as it's response..

The purpose is to disguise the destination URL from the originating client browser.

The result is when I browse to

http://www.myurl.com/apage?URL=http://www.yoururl.com/yourpage

I get the same results as browsing to

http://www.yoururl.com/yourpage

without using a redirect...

If one of you seasoned Python programmers could share this script with me it would be greatly appreciated...

 

[ericbrunson]

There is a SimpleHTTPServer class in the standard distribution. You could use that as the proxy server, then retrieve the real web page using the urllib2 functionality.

 

[wiersbr]

Thanks for your help, but I think I am wanting to do something much simpler? I need a solution like the ones posted here...however in Python..Is there a simple solution like these?

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16520

 

[rzs0502]

Take a look at these Python Project... very simple to use:

http://www.nightmare.com/medusa/

http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/

"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[ericbrunson]

Well, here's the PHP example from the page you posted:

<?php

$dataURL = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/resources/macromedia_resources.xml";[/URL]

//note that this will not follow redirects

readfile($dataURL);

?>

Here's the same thing in python:

import urllib2

dataURL="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/resources/macromedia_resources.xml";[/URL]

print "".join( urllib2.urlopen( dataurl ).readlines() )

 

[wiersbr]

Awesome! That's exactly what I needed. Thanks.
Now if I can ask one more newbie question...
I need to pass the url in a querystring, as in

http://mydomain.com/myPythonScript....com/desdev/resources/macromedia_resources.xml

How do I parse the URL?

 

[ericbrunson]

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/node471.html