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Author	mwilck
Recipients	doko, kxroberto, mwilck, orsenthil, vila
Date	2008-03-06.10:52:42
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Message-id	<1204800764.45.0.904697961907.issue1424152@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I think this is a major issue because urllib2 is widely used, and any application using it is useless behind a HTTPS proxy. A Prominent example in the Linux world is yum, the Fedora Linux package management tool. HTTPS proxies are a extermely common in the corporate world. The cookbook recipe shows that it is possible to implement a CONNECT proxy (with quite a few lines of code, actually), but because it's not part of urllib2 it has been broken by python 2.5.

I think this is a major issue because urllib2 is widely used, and any
application using it is useless behind a HTTPS proxy. A Prominent
example in the Linux world is yum, the Fedora Linux package management
tool. HTTPS proxies are a extermely common in the corporate world.

The cookbook recipe shows that it is possible to implement a CONNECT
proxy (with quite a few lines of code, actually), but because it's not
part of urllib2 it has been broken by python 2.5.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-03-06 10:52:44	mwilck	set	spambayes_score: 0.0397478 -> 0.039747838 recipients: + mwilck, doko, orsenthil, kxroberto, vila
2008-03-06 10:52:44	mwilck	set	spambayes_score: 0.0397478 -> 0.0397478 messageid: <1204800764.45.0.904697961907.issue1424152@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-03-06 10:52:43	mwilck	link	issue1424152 messages
2008-03-06 10:52:42	mwilck	create