I remember similar discussion in the past, and I believe one of the proposed solutions was to use the http_proxy env var (IIRC urllib2 uses this automatically), though I don't know whether GNOME sets this.
I remember similar discussion in the past, and I believe one of the proposed solutions was to use the http_proxy env var (IIRC urllib2 uses this automatically), though I don't know whether GNOME sets this.