[ python-Bugs-1448934 ] urllib2+https+proxy not working

Sat Apr 15 19:27:41 CEST 2006

Bugs item #1448934, was opened at 2006-03-13 15:55
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Rui Martins (ruibmartins)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: urllib2+https+proxy not working

Initial Comment:
Using urllib2 to access an https site using a proxy 
doesn't work. It always returns "<HTML> </HTML>"

I've been looking around for bug reports on this and 
code samples, but all that I've got were emails/forum 
posts dating back to 2003 warning that the HTTPS over 
Proxy in urllib2 isn't implemented in Python!

Is this true?

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Comment By: John J Lee (jjlee)
Date: 2006-04-15 18:27

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Yes, there is no special support for using https proxies
(via the CONNECT method) in httplib or urllib2.

http://python.org/sf/515003 shows how to do it, but the
patch is not good enough to be added to the standard
library.  Feel free to write a better patch!

Please close this, since it's really a feature request, not
a bug.

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