[issue7291] urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth

[Martin Panter]

Martin Panter added the comment:

For the record, a while ago I think I made a patch implementing my HTTPConnection.detach() proposal. I can probably dig it up if anyone is interested.

However I gave up on fixing this bug in “urllib.request”. As far as I understand it, the framework does not distinguish the 407 Proxy Authentication Required error of the initial proxy CONNECT request from any potential 407 response from a tunnelled connection. Perhaps a special case could be made; I think there are already lots of special cases. But the maze of urlopen() handlers is already too complicated and I decided this was too hard to bother working on. Sorry :)

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stage:  -> needs patch

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