[GrimReaperLu]

As this is my first post, I'd like to say thank you for Calibre - good work.

I ran the get_proxies() script and the reply was {}

I use a reverse proxy with username and password, configured in Internet Explorer.

My PC is running XP, IE 7, Calibre 0.4.83

Fetch News from the BBC produces the following log:

('URLError', u""):
Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "parallel.py", line 760, in worker
File "parallel.py", line 729, in work
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\lrf\feeds \convert_from.py", line 42, in main
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\web\feeds\main.p y", line 114, in run_recipe
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.pyo", line 473, in download
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.pyo", line 586, in build_index
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.pyo", line 781, in parse_feeds
File "mechanize\_mechanize.pyo", line 203, in open
File "mechanize\_mechanize.pyo", line 229, in _mech_open
File "mechanize\_opener.pyo", line 181, in open
File "urllib2.pyo", line 399, in _open
File "urllib2.pyo", line 360, in _call_chain
File "mechanize\_http.pyo", line 700, in http_open
File "mechanize\_http.pyo", line 677, in do_open
URLError:
Log: