urllib2, proxies and https

[John J. Lee]

Astan Chee <stanc at al.com.au> writes:

> Hi again,
> According to
> https://demo.launchpad.net/products/python/+bug/56872
> or more specifically, the example of its working code:
> http://librarian.demo.launchpad.net/3507227/urllib2_proxy_auth.py
> I can use urllib2 via proxy to access a https site(specifically
> hooking it up to libgmail).
[...]

The code at that URL seems to be claiming you CAN'T do that, even with
HTTP URLs (note HTTP, not HTTPS).  Hopefully (s)he is complaining
about 2.4 -- there are a bunch of bugs with this kind of thing fixed
in Python 2.5.

Re HTTPS: urllib2 does not support the CONNECT method (nor urllib, I
think), so no, you can't visit HTTPS URLS through a proxy with vanilla
urllib2.  There are some hacks lying around in the cookbook and on the
Python SF tracker showing how to do it, though.


John