debugging https connections with urllib2?

[Roy Smith]

In article <4dfcff48$0$49184$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>,
 Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 18-6-2011 20:57, Roy Smith wrote:
> > We've got a REST call that we're making to a service provider over https 
> > using urllib2.urlopen().  Is there any way to see exactly what's getting 
> > sent and received over the network (i.e. all the HTTP headers) in plain 
> > text?
> 
> Put a proxy between the https-service endpoint and your client app.
> Let the proxy talk https and let your client talk http to the proxy.

Clever.  I like.  Thanks.