Comment 20 for bug 94130

It doesn't work when you need the proxy (hence the "without proxy" in my comment); it works for me because I only use a caching proxy.

Another possible workaround would be to use a generic interceptor such as proxychains (there are others) which will redirect all connections from a process to a proxy.

I don't think urllib2 will be fixed in the near future, but we could look at other means to connect to https for apport (setting up the ssl socket manually I guess).