try:
        #rl[0] refers to a specific url being pulled from a list in another file.
        req = urllib.request.Request(rl[0],None,headers)
        opener = urllib.request.build_opener(proxy_support, urllib.request.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
        resp = opener.open(req)
        soup = BeautifulSoup(resp.read(),'html.parser')
        resp.close
    except urllib.error.URLError:
        print("URL error when opening "+rl[0])
    except urllib.error.HTTPError:
        print("HTTP error when opening "+rl[0])
    except http.client.HTTPException as err:
        print(err, "HTTP exception error when opening "+rl[0])
    except socket.timeout:
        print("connection timedout accessing "+rl[0])
        soup = None
    else:
        for l in [wdict1,wdict2,wdict3,wdict4]:
            for i in l:
                foundvocab = soup.find_all(text=re.compile(i))
                for term in foundvocab:
                    #c indicates the highlight color determined earlier in the script based on which dictionary the word came from.
                    #numb is a term i defined earlier to use as a reference to another document this script creates.
                    fixed = term.replace(i,'<mark background-color="'+c+'">'+i+'<sup>'+numb+'</sup></mark>')
                    term.replace_with(fixed)
        print(soup, file=path/local.html)

foundvocab = soup.find_all(text=i)