Retrieve the source code of a url using pycurl and a port number?

Question

Is there any way to retrieve the url source code and store it in a string ,provided that a particular port is defined in pycurl module so that it works for a proxy network. platform - ubuntu or any other linux distro

Answer 1

Use this code to get source of url

from StringIO import StringIO    
import pycurl

url = 'http://www.google.com/'

storage = StringIO()
c = pycurl.Curl()
c.setopt(c.URL, url)
c.setopt(c.WRITEFUNCTION, storage.write)
c.perform()
c.close()
content = storage.getvalue()
print content