SSL (HTTPS) with 2.4

[Andrew Bushnell]

I am interested in any further progress with this, you may have made? I 
am facing a similar issue. In short, I need to connect to a https site 
(in this case a WSDL) that I need to access through an Http proxy. I 
have tried various things to no avail. I did find a couple recipes on 
the ASPN python cookbook that talk about tunneling via a "CONNECT" 
request is what I believe I need to do. The recipes are:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/301740

this particular example establishes the proxy connection and then issues 
the connect request to establish the connection to the https site, then 
tries to establish an SSL Socket connection to the proxy then talk 
through it to get the data from the https via the proxy, I get the same 
EOF error when I run this sample with our proxy..

The other recipe I looked at was:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/213238

This is a tunneling mechanism. When I try this, I basically get 
"nowhere" in other words, the get request never gets picked up by the 
various socket/servers setup to do the tunneling and it just loops 
around seemingly forever..

I am running on Windows XP if that matters.

Of course, Mozilla and I.E. work fine accessing the https site in 
question via our proxy. In short, I simply need to connect to a http 
proxy and through it get at a url which is an https. I do not need any 
user name or password etc. to get to the site. The standard Python 
libraries fail as the "GET" request through the proxy is dismissed as a 
bad request.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

- Andrew Bushnell

Bloke wrote:

> Thanks Martin.
> 
> The problem seems to lie with our company proxy (which requires
> authentication).  I have tried retrieving the page on another network
> with a transparent proxy, and it all works fine.  Unfortnately, any
> https page I try to retrieve on the company network fails in this way
> with after a long period of inactivity.  However, I can retrieve the
> page using a standard browser through the same company network.  I
> think there must be something weird going on with our proxy server.
> 

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