Comment 15 for bug 186920

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Vincent Ladeuil (vila) wrote : Re: bzr launchpad does not handle proxy when used for name resolution

john> Is there a way to link a bug with Python's bugtracker?

Congratulations mentioning it just dit it (see 'Remote bug watches' frame on this page (~top right).

john> but it seems like it is a fundamental problem inside of python's xmlrpclib.

Yes. As you pointed out proxy handling is available only in urllib2 and even there we had to work-around some deficiencies and we rely heavily on _urllib2_wrappers for HTTP/1.1 and proxy handling (mainly CONNECT, access to the proxy definitions, authentication (not needed here I think)) .