--- D:/site_engineering/01 monitoring/urllib2_old.txt	Mon Feb 25 12:26:30 2008
+++ D:/site_engineering/01 monitoring/urllib2.txt	Mon Feb 25 12:34:45 2008
@@ -181,7 +181,8 @@
 
    Cause requests to go through a proxy. If *proxies* is given, it must be a
    dictionary mapping protocol names to URLs of proxies. The default is to read the
-   list of proxies from the environment variables :envvar:`<protocol>_proxy`.
+   list of proxies from the environment variables :envvar:`<protocol>_proxy`, so
+   to disable autodetected proxy pass an empty dictionary.
 
 
 .. class:: HTTPPasswordMgr()