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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2007-08-09 14:26:58 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/p3yk ................ r56808 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-08-07 14:15:45 -0700 (Tue, 07 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Replace sys.exitfunc call with atexit call ................ r56835 | thomas.wouters | 2007-08-08 09:20:30 -0700 (Wed, 08 Aug 2007) | 8 lines Tests for dict comprehensions I forgot to 'svn add' when committing the actual feature. I was _sure_ I had checked in these new tests already, but I guess the checkin failed and I didn't notice. ................ r56847 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-08-09 07:03:34 -0700 (Thu, 09 Aug 2007) | 30 lines Merged revisions 56760-56846 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r56762 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-06 00:37:58 -0700 (Mon, 06 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Place #ifdef Py_USING_UNICODE around decode_unicode(). ........ r56763 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-06 00:39:09 -0700 (Mon, 06 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Replace unnecessary function call. ........ r56764 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-06 00:52:20 -0700 (Mon, 06 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Patch #1765839: add link to https+proxy urllib2 opener. ........ r56797 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-07 00:13:24 -0700 (Tue, 07 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1769002: fix a now-wrong sentence in the tutorial. ........ r56830 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-08 06:03:41 -0700 (Wed, 08 Aug 2007) | 3 lines Revert the fix for #1548891, it broke backwards compatibility with arbitrary read buffers. Fixes #1730114. ........ r56833 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-08 06:50:02 -0700 (Wed, 08 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Fix compilation warning. ........ ................
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@@ -541,7 +541,9 @@ steps to setting up a `Basic Authentication`_ handler : ::
.. note::
Currently ``urllib2`` *does not* support fetching of ``https``
- locations through a proxy. This can be a problem.
+ locations through a proxy. However, this can be enabled by extending
+ urllib2 as shown in the recipe [#]_.
+
Sockets and Layers
==================
@@ -596,3 +598,6 @@ This document was reviewed and revised by John Lee.
is set to use the proxy, which urllib2 picks up on. In order to test
scripts with a localhost server, I have to prevent urllib2 from using
the proxy.
+.. [#] urllib2 opener for SSL proxy (CONNECT method): `ASPN Cookbook Recipe
+ <http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/456195>`_.
+