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# File "E:\Lib\urllib.py", line 1577, in getproxies_registry
# proxyEnable = _winreg.QueryValueEx(internetSettings,
# IOError: System.IO.IOException: The specified registry key does not exist.
elif os.name == 'nt':
def getproxies_registry():
"""Return a dictionary of scheme -> proxy server URL mappings.
Win32 uses the registry to store proxies.
"""
proxies = {}
### begin azure patch
return proxies
### end azure patch
try:
import _winreg
except ImportError:
# Std module, so should be around - but you never know!
return proxies
try:
internetSettings = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
r'Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings')
proxyEnable = _winreg.QueryValueEx(internetSettings,
'ProxyEnable')[0]
if proxyEnable:
# Returned as Unicode but problems if not converted to ASCII
proxyServer = str(_winreg.QueryValueEx(internetSettings,
'ProxyServer')[0])
if '=' in proxyServer:
# Per-protocol settings
for p in proxyServer.split(';'):
protocol, address = p.split('=', 1)
# See if address has a type:// prefix
import re
if not re.match('^([^/:]+)://', address):
address = '%s://%s' % (protocol, address)
proxies[protocol] = address
else:
# Use one setting for all protocols
if proxyServer[:5] == 'http:':
proxies['http'] = proxyServer
else:
proxies['http'] = 'http://%s' % proxyServer
proxies['ftp'] = 'ftp://%s' % proxyServer
internetSettings.Close()
except (WindowsError, ValueError, TypeError):
# Either registry key not found etc, or the value in an
# unexpected format.
# proxies already set up to be empty so nothing to do
pass
return proxies
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