Commit e7fe6c3d authored by Georg Brandl's avatar Georg Brandl

Patch #1765839: add link to https+proxy urllib2 opener.

parent 0f6d360a
......@@ -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>`_.
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