Https and proxy support in urllib2

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "jam" == John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

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

AFAIK, we have a specific implementation for https via proxies
that works for all supported python versions, i.e. *we*
considered it a feature and implemented it for all supported
versions.

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

Good to know.

Thanks for the heads-up on both points,

       Vincent