On 30 August 2016 at 13:41, Ivo Bellin Salarin <ivo.bellinsala...@gmail.com> wrote: > While using requests to tunnel a request via a proxy requiring user > authentication, I have seen that httplib > (https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/3.5/Lib/http/client.py#l831) raises the > message returned by the proxy, along with its status code (407) without > including the proxy response. This one could be very interesting to the > consumer, since it could contain some useful headers (like the supported > authentication schemes).
Here are some existing bug threads which may be relevant: https://bugs.python.org/issue7291 (urllib.request support for handling tunnel authentication) https://bugs.python.org/issue24964 (get tunnel response header fields in http.client) > Would it be possible to change the http/client.py behavior in order to raise > an exception including the whole response? That would be one way, and might be good enough for getting a Proxy-Authenticate value. Although there might be other ways that also: * Allow reading the body (e.g. HTML page) of the error response. IMO an exception instance is the wrong place for this; urllib.error.HTTPError is a bad example. * Allow the tunnel response fields to be obtained even when the request was successful > If you don't see any problem with my proposal, how can I propose a pull > request? :-) Perhaps you can use one of the patches at one of the above bug reports as a starting point. What you want seems to be a prerequisite for Issue 7291 (urllib.request), so maybe we can discuss it there. Or open a new bug to focus on the http.client-only aspect. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
