[issue7291] urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth

2014-02-21 Thread Vackar Afzal
Vackar Afzal added the comment: I've found that for the Python2.6.x patch to play nicely with the popular rquests library, I've had to set some defaults on the modified __init__ function so that it reads as follows: def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): _orig_init(s

[issue7291] urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth

2014-02-21 Thread Vackar Afzal
Vackar Afzal added the comment: Also needed to make another minor update to the monkey patch. Have uploaded the new files as new_http_proxy_patch.py for use with python 2.6.x -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34174/new_http_proxy_patch.py