I have a proxy setup on my machine (Win -7).
I have written a python program which tries to open new tab of a browser with given URL, with the help of webbrowser module in python.
But webbrowser.open_new_tab(URL) fails when I check the "Use proxy server for your LAN" checkbox in Internet Explorer settings (under LAN Settings), but it works perfectly fine when I uncheck this box .
I don't understand why this is happening. Is there any way by which the webbroser module works with a proxy?
Am I doing anything wrong here?
Sorry for the noise.
I just realized that urllib2.urlopen(url) was breaking the things, not webbrowser.open_new_tab(url).
We need to use proxyhandlers of urllib2 to get away with this.
@Lawrence, Thanks for the help