Https and proxy support in urllib2

[John Arbash Meinel]

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I just saw this message on the python-dev mailing list.

I thought we might want to look into it, in case we have some issues
with proxies and https. I'm not sure what *we* can do, as their ruling
"feature not a bugfix, thus no backporting" is not particularly helpful
for us having proxy support (even going all the way back to python2.4).

By the way, it just came up last week that properly supporting python2.4
was important. It seems RHEL 4 is still a python2.4 only system. From
what I can tell RHEL is considered to have a total 7-year lifetime with:

 4 years of primary life including software enhancements
 1 year with minor releases
 2 years of security and bugfix only

Technically, even RHEL 3 is still supported in bugfix mode until 2010
(and only has python2.3, IIRC.)

John
=:->


- -------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Python-Dev] Backporting HTTPS via Proxy Support in urllib2
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:33:23 +0530
From: Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil at gmail.com>
To: python-dev at python.org

Issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue1424152   mentions about HTTPS
Support via proxy in urllib2.

This is fixed in the trunk (Revision 72880), but there has been number
of valid requests to backport it Python 2.6. While I agree and ready
to backport to Python 2.6, I would like to ask here if there are any
objections in this front.

I am ready with the Python 3.x patch as well (with tests passed and
tested under proxy setup). I shall apply that too, which is pending
for a while now. :(


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