On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 2:53 AM, "Martin v. Löwis"<mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >> This is fixed in the trunk (Revision 72880), but there has been number >> of valid requests to backport it Python 2.6. While I agree and ready >> to backport to Python 2.6, I would like to ask here if there are any >> objections in this front. > > In msg76855 Greg ruled that it is a new feature, and thus cannot be > backported. I trust his judgement - so to convince me, you would need > to convince Greg first :-) > > Regards, > Martin
So long as the new set_tunnel() method is hidden in the backport I'm fine with the patch. It fixes urllib2 do the right thing with https and a proxy without any public API change. -Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
