Problem when applying Patch from issue1424152 to get https over authenticating proxies working with urllib2 in Python 2.5

[Nike]

On Jul 20, 11:11 pm, tvashtar <tvash... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get https requests working through an authenticating
> proxy with urllib2 in Python 2.5, I'm aware that this isn't supported
> "out of the box", so applied the patchhttp://bugs.python.org/file9753/http-tunnel-urllib
> linked fromhttp://bugs.python.org/issue1424152, my baseline test
> program is the following:
>
> p = "user:pass at proxy:port"
> proxy_handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler({"http": p, "https": p})
> urllib2.install_opener( urllib2.build_opener( urllib2.HTTPHandler,
>
> urllib2.HTTPSHandler,
>
> proxy_handler))
>
> request = urllib2.Request( "https://groups.google.com")
> response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
>
> Unfortunately this doesn't work, the call stack being:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "D:\p4\depot\Development\HEAD\Build\ReleaseSystem\DownloadSystem
> \urllib2.py", line 121, in urlopen
>     return _opener.open(url, data)
>   File "D:\p4\depot\Development\HEAD\Build\ReleaseSystem\DownloadSystem
> \urllib2.py", line 374, in open
>     response = self._open(req, data)
>   File "D:\p4\depot\Development\HEAD\Build\ReleaseSystem\DownloadSystem
> \urllib2.py", line 392, in _open
>     '_open', req)
>   File "D:\p4\depot\Development\HEAD\Build\ReleaseSystem\DownloadSystem
> \urllib2.py", line 353, in _call_chain
>     result = func(*args)
>   File "D:\p4\depot\Development\HEAD\Build\ReleaseSystem\DownloadSystem
> \urllib2.py", line 1108, in https_open
>     return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req)
>   File "D:\p4\depot\Development\HEAD\Build\ReleaseSystem\DownloadSystem
> \urllib2.py", line 1075, in do_open
>     raise URLError(err)
> urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (1, 'error:140770FC:SSL
> routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol')>
>
> Does anyone know why I might be hitting this issue?
> Any help is greatly appreciated,
> thanks

hi!
 It's looks like a ssl error . Under the following step to help u :
  1. takes a simple code to confirm your pupose without ssl protocol.
  2. to confirm python version and extended libs work well
  3. to confirm ssl work well.

goog luck!

nikekoo