Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com> added the comment: As you noticed, the _set_tunnel method is a private method not intended to be used directly. Its being used by urllib2 when https through proxy is required. urllib2 works like this, it reads HTTPS_PROXY environment variable (in turn includes HTTPSProxyHandler and HTTPSProxyAuthenticationHandler) and then try to do a urlopen on an https:// url or a request object through the tunnel doing a CONNECT instead of a GET.
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