HTTPSConnection with proxy

[Stuart D. Gathman]

I cannot figure out how to use a proxy with HTTPSConnection

I cannot use urllib because:

a) the proxy support in urllib doesn't seem to work for https: 
b) I need to post data with Content-Type: application/EDIStream,
	and urllib hardwires application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Does anyone know the basic protocol for https?  The proxy server logs it
as a "CONNECT" request - which makes sense because the client will be
doing the encoding.  How would one simulate a CONNECT request via telnet?
 I can translate that to python code.

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