SSL (HTTPS) with 2.4

[andreas at kostyrka.org]

Hi!

HTTPS over a proxy (CONNECT) hasn't worked for a long time in python
(actually it has never worked).

A quick glance at the 2.4 Changelog doesn't suggest that this has been
fixed.

So basically you've got the following options:
a) redo your own http/https support.
b) look around on the net for some patches to httplib (google is your friend)
   be aware that these are quite old patches.
c) using some external solution, like pycURL.

Andreas


On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:53:11PM -0400, Andrew Bushnell wrote:
> Thanks for the update. I will/can keep you posted. I know for a fact we 
> use a Squid proxy which sounds like what you are using. I am going to 
> check out the faq you sent and see what it comes up with. I have also 
> been perusing the net a bit and looking at other client packages and see 
> if they work, such as cURL etc.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew
> 
> Bloke wrote:
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > It seems I'm not the only one going nuts here.  I have just spent the
> > last 4 hrs stepping through the code in the debugger.  It seems to get
> > stuck somewhere in the socket module (when it calls ssl) but haven't as
> > yet figured out exactly where.
> > 
> > I am _very_ interested to find that you have the same prob with a
> > non-authenticating proxy.  I had considered I was doing something wrong
> > with the authentication, but from what you say, and from what I have
> > deduced from the code, it is not the authentication that is at fault.
> > 
> > Like you, a standard browser works fine, so I'm inclined to think there
> > is something buggy with the way the sockets module talks to the proxy.
> > There has been some suggestion that it may me a 'Microsoftish' proxy
> > which is at fault, but I believe it is a Squid proxy our company uses.
> > 
> > There is an interesting note here (
> > http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html  setcion 11.34 )
> > regarding malformed https requests sent through Squid with buggy
> > clients.  It may be worth looking into.
> > 
> > Anyway, if you have any luck, _please_ let me know - I'm getting
> > desparate.
> > 
> 
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