{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/coursera-dl/edx-dl/issues/274","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/coursera-dl/edx-dl/issues/274/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/coursera-dl/edx-dl/issues/274/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/coursera-dl/edx-dl/issues/274/events","html_url":"https://github.com/coursera-dl/edx-dl/issues/274","id":100027715,"number":274,"title":"Proxy Support","user":{"login":"newinnov","id":4055149,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4055149?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/newinnov","html_url":"https://github.com/newinnov","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/newinnov/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/newinnov/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/newinnov/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/newinnov/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/newinnov/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/newinnov/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/newinnov/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/newinnov/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/newinnov/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-08-10T10:13:37Z","updated_at":"2015-08-10T17:29:20Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Kindly provide proxy support for the edx-dl tool, may be a command line argument to input proxy.\r\n\r\nI am getting this error, when I access this tool in a proxy network-\r\n\r\nurllib.error.URLError:\r\n urlopen error [WinError 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/coursera-dl/edx-dl/issues/comments/129539567","html_url":"https://github.com/coursera-dl/edx-dl/issues/274#issuecomment-129539567","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/coursera-dl/edx-dl/issues/274","id":129539567,"user":{"login":"balta2ar","id":340676,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/340676?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/balta2ar","html_url":"https://github.com/balta2ar","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balta2ar/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balta2ar/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balta2ar/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balta2ar/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balta2ar/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balta2ar/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balta2ar/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balta2ar/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/balta2ar/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-08-10T17:29:20Z","updated_at":"2015-08-10T17:29:20Z","body":"What kind of proxy do you need?\r\n\r\nMy first intention is to suggest you to try to solve this problem using external tools like [proxychains](http://proxychains.sourceforge.net/), [tsocks](http://tsocks.sourceforge.net/) or maybe configuring a [transparent proxy](http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TransparentProxy.html).\r\n\r\nIf the problem can be solved with these tools, I'd abstain from supporting it in the code."}}