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authorSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2016-07-31 06:39:06 (GMT)
committerSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2016-07-31 06:39:06 (GMT)
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[merge from 3.4] - Prevent HTTPoxy attack (CVE-2016-1000110)
Ignore the HTTP_PROXY variable when REQUEST_METHOD environment is set, which indicates that the script is in CGI mode. Issue #27568 Reported and patch contributed by RĂ©mi Rampin.
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@@ -538,6 +538,11 @@ setting up a `Basic Authentication`_ handler: ::
through a proxy. However, this can be enabled by extending urllib.request as
shown in the recipe [#]_.
+.. note::
+
+ ``HTTP_PROXY`` will be ignored if a variable ``REQUEST_METHOD`` is set; see
+ the documentation on :func:`~urllib.request.getproxies`.
+
Sockets and Layers
==================