I guess even a novice like me should have figured that out.
I have to say this is an amazing product you have developed and even more amazing is that you spend the time to respond to posts like mine.
I tried using the forum posting at
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28219
The proxy setting was indeed blank when I started. I found the pac file which was as follows (I replaced the IP addresses for security reasons)
function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
//
//
// if (isInNet(host), "1.2.3.4", "255.255.255.255") {
// return "DIRECT";
// }
//
if (url.substring(0, 4) == "ftp:") {
return "DIRECT";
}
if (url.substring(0, 5) == "https") {
return "DIRECT";
}
else if (isPlainHostName(host) ||
isInNet(myIpAddress(), "1.2.3.4", "255.255.255.0") ||
isInNet(host, "5.6.7.8", "255.0.0.0") ||
return "DIRECT";
else
return "PROXY 211.52.201.65:80; PROXY 211.52.181.65:80; DIRECT";
}
So I set my proxy address to 211.52.201.65:80 (I figured the second address was a backup). I am pretty sure that was successful because now I get that value when I run the script. (see below)
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
G:\>calibre-debug -c "from calibre import get_proxies; print get_proxies()"
Using proxies: {'http': '211.52.201.65:80'}
{'http': '211.52.201.65:80'}
But I still cannot fetch news. Any ideas? (note that I was not able to run the "feeds2disk" command mentioned in the post referenced above) It said it was not a recognized command.