https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298378#c5
--- Comment #5 from Peter Poeml 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 ;)
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