What is the correct way to use win32inet.WinHttpGetProxyForUrl

Question

I am trying to use the Microsoft WinHttp library function that was discovered by Win32com developers. Unfortunately, most of the library does not seem to be documented, and there is no example of the correct way to use win32inet functions through the win32com library.

This is what I have so far:

import win32inet
hinternet = win32inet.InternetOpen("foo 1.0", 0, "", "", 0)
# Does not work!!!
proxy = win32inet.WinHttpGetProxyForUrl( hinternet, u"http://www.foo.com", 0  )

As you can see, all I'm trying to do is use the win32inet function to find out which proxy is suitable for a given URL, in its case foo.com.

Can you help me fix the syntax of the last line? MSN has some good documentation for a wrapped function , but the arguments don't seem to match the python library files at all.

The fixed version of this script should:

• Be able to search which proxy to use for any given URL.

• It should always do what Internet Explorer would do (i.e. use the same proxy)

• It must be valid with any proper configuration of Windows XP. This means that it must work with an explicitly configured proxy server, as well as without a proxy server.

• It should only work on Windows XP 32bit with Python 2.4.4. It can use any official released version of win32com.

I am using Python2.4.4 with Win32Com on Windows XP.

UPDATE 0:

OR ... can you give me an alternative implementation in cTypes? As long as I can do this, I'm happy!

Answer 1

, HINTERNET , ctypes winhttp DLL. - , - , , , , . msdn , API.

import ctypes
import ctypes.wintypes

winHttp = ctypes.windll.LoadLibrary("Winhttp.dll")

# http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384098(VS.85).aspx
# first get a handle to HTTP session
WINHTTP_ACCESS_TYPE_DEFAULT_PROXY=0
WINHTTP_NO_PROXY_NAME=WINHTTP_NO_PROXY_BYPASS=0
WINHTTP_FLAG_ASYNC=0x10000000
HINTERNET = winHttp.WinHttpOpen("PyWin32", WINHTTP_ACCESS_TYPE_DEFAULT_PROXY, WINHTTP_NO_PROXY_NAME, WINHTTP_NO_PROXY_BYPASS, WINHTTP_FLAG_ASYNC)
print HINTERNET

# now get proxy using HTTP session
# http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384097(VS.85).aspx
"""
BOOL WinHttpGetProxyForUrl(
  __in   HINTERNET hSession,
  __in   LPCWSTR lpcwszUrl,
  __in   WINHTTP_AUTOPROXY_OPTIONS *pAutoProxyOptions,
  __out  WINHTTP_PROXY_INFO *pProxyInfo
);
"""
# create C structure for WINHTTP_AUTOPROXY_OPTIONS
#http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384123(VS.85).aspx
"""
typedef struct {
  DWORD   dwFlags;
  DWORD   dwAutoDetectFlags;
  LPCWSTR lpszAutoConfigUrl;
  LPVOID  lpvReserved;
  DWORD   dwReserved;
  BOOL    fAutoLogonIfChallenged;
} WINHTTP_AUTOPROXY_OPTIONS;
"""
class WINHTTP_AUTOPROXY_OPTIONS(ctypes.Structure):
    _fields_ = [("dwFlags", ctypes.wintypes.DWORD),
                ("dwAutoDetectFlags", ctypes.wintypes.DWORD),
                ("lpszAutoConfigUrl", ctypes.wintypes.LPCWSTR),
                ("lpvReserved", ctypes.c_void_p ),
                ("dwReserved", ctypes.wintypes.DWORD),
                ("fAutoLogonIfChallenged",ctypes.wintypes.BOOL),]

WINHTTP_AUTOPROXY_AUTO_DETECT = 0x00000001;
WINHTTP_AUTO_DETECT_TYPE_DHCP = 0x00000001;
WINHTTP_AUTO_DETECT_TYPE_DNS_A = 0x00000002;
options = WINHTTP_AUTOPROXY_OPTIONS()
options.dwFlags = WINHTTP_AUTOPROXY_AUTO_DETECT
options.dwAutoDetectFlags = WINHTTP_AUTO_DETECT_TYPE_DHCP|WINHTTP_AUTO_DETECT_TYPE_DNS_A
options.lpszAutoConfigUrl = 0
options.fAutoLogonIfChallenged = False

# create C structure for WINHTTP_AUTOPROXY_OPTIONS
# http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383912(VS.85).aspx
"""
struct WINHTTP_PROXY_INFO {
  DWORD  dwAccessType;
  LPWSTR lpszProxy;
  LPWSTR lpszProxyBypass;
};
"""
class WINHTTP_PROXY_INFO(ctypes.Structure):
    _fields_ = [("dwAccessType", ctypes.wintypes.DWORD),
                ("lpszProxy", ctypes.wintypes.LPCWSTR),
                ("lpszProxyBypass", ctypes.wintypes.LPCWSTR),]

info = WINHTTP_PROXY_INFO()

ret = winHttp.WinHttpGetProxyForUrl(HINTERNET, "http://www.google.com", ctypes.pointer(options), ctypes.pointer(info) )
print "proxy success?",ret
if not ret:
    # some error lets see what is that?
    import win32api
    import win32con
    errorCode = win32api.GetLastError()
    print "win32 Error:",errorCode
    s = ""
    print win32api.FormatMessage(errorCode)

print info.dwAccessType, info.lpszProxy, info.lpszProxyBypass

Answer 2

win32inet ( - SWIG), ctypes.

Answer 3

, Python 2.7.6 Pywin 218 Windows XP x86 Windows 8 x64 :

import win32inet
# http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384098(v=vs.85).aspx
hinternet = win32inet.WinHttpOpen("foo", 0, "", "", 0)

# http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384123(v=vs.85).aspx
autoproxy_options = (2, 0, u"http://your-proxy-script-path", None, 0, 1)

# http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384097(v=vs.85).aspx
proxy = win32inet.WinHttpGetProxyForUrl(hinternet, u"http://www.google.com",
                    autoproxy_options)

print proxy

, autoproxy WINHTTP_AUTOPROXY_CONFIG_URL, URL. , , DNS DHCP, :

autoproxy_options = (1, 1|2, u"", None, 0, 1)

You can find other options in the link above (in code)