[twill] https from behind a proxy

[John J Lee]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:

> I'm having a heckuva time getting https connections working from behind
> a proxy.
[...]

It's not supported!

There's a patch on sourceforge, but it's done in an ugly way, so won't go 
into the standard library until somebody does it properly.  I can't 
actually find that patch on SF, but here's a couple of recipes (which I 
don't vouch for -- and be prepared for some hacking):

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/301740
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/456195


John