Add item to the list of limitations that points out the lack of support

freddrake · freddrake · commit 81c1735809f5 · 2000-09-15T04:12:56.000Z
for authenticated proxies. This is noted elsewhere, but this makes it easier to find. Fix typo where it was already mentioned. This closes SourceForge bug #110619.
diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ \section{\module{urllib} ---
 see the \function{urlencode()} function below.
 
 The \function{urlopen()} function works transparently with proxies
-whicd do not require authentication.  In a \UNIX{} or Windows
+which do not require authentication.  In a \UNIX{} or Windows
 environment, set the \envvar{http_proxy}, \envvar{ftp_proxy} or
 \envvar{gopher_proxy} environment variables to a URL that identifies
 the proxy server before starting the Python interpreter.  For example
@@ -261,6 +261,10 @@ \section{\module{urllib} ---
 no easy way to extract it.  If the returned data is HTML, you can use
 the module \refmodule{htmllib}\refstmodindex{htmllib} to parse it.
 
+\item
+This module does not support the use of proxies which require
+authentication.  This may be implemented in the future.
+
 \item
 Although the \module{urllib} module contains (undocumented) routines
 to parse and unparse URL strings, the recommended interface for URL
