https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298378#c5 --- Comment #5 from Peter Poeml <poeml@novell.com> 2007-08-08 07:50:27 MST --- The problem is, the user has no way of fixing it, if he really needs to use a HTTPS proxy. Note that even though python 2.5 issues a warning, it still tries to access the network without proxy. And there may be situations where https_proxy is set, but not really needed at all (like in the case reported here -- we don't restrict access to port 443 at all, you see). I believe the latter case is the majority of cases. That's why. If port 443 is really not reachable directly, does it really make a big difference in your opinion, if python tells me that "urllib can't handle https proxies" and gives a timeout (or network unreachable), or only gives a timeout (or network unreachable)? Most people use older python versions anyway, so far. Note that I did never get a report that using osc via HTTPS proxy does not work. Only this report about the error message! I doubt that people want to see the warning message all the time. Although it may eventually speed up fixing urllib2 to get this missing feature ;) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.