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)) .
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)) .