def setUp(self): # Start the proxy server create_temp_dir() self._proxy = LocalProxy(self.IP, 0) self._proxy.start() self._proxy.wait_for_start() port = self._proxy.get_port() # Build the proxy opener proxy_handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler( {"http": "http://%s:%s" % (self.IP, port)}) self.proxy_opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_handler, urllib2.HTTPHandler)