[issue24177] Add https?_proxy support to http.client

Change by Demian Brecht : -- keywords: +patch, patch pull_requests: +11617, 11618 stage: needs patch -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

[issue24177] Add https?_proxy support to http.client

Change by Demian Brecht : -- keywords: +patch, patch, patch pull_requests: +11617, 11618, 11619 stage: needs patch -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

[issue24177] Add https?_proxy support to http.client

Change by Demian Brecht : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +11617 stage: needs patch -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue24177] Add https?_proxy support to http.client

Demian Brecht added the comment: Yeah, agreed that it should be opt-in, at least until a major release. I've run into a couple cases where higher level libraries use http.client (or httplib) directly, but don't expose the client directly (not that they should anyways). Because of that, there

[issue24177] Add https?_proxy support to http.client

R. David Murray added the comment: And it should only be added if it actually makes *sense* in the architecture of http.client, which I haven't reviewed with this in mind. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue24177] Add https?_proxy support to http.client

R. David Murray added the comment: I agree, I think that any proxy support in http.client would need to be opt-in and not on-by-default, exactly because it is a lower level library. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue24177] Add https?_proxy support to http.client

Martin Panter added the comment: I think this would have a serious chance of breaking stuff unless it was only enabled with a new flag or similar. Also, I guess it would probably be limited to Basic authentication. The wget and curl programs both support different URL protocols, HTTP

[issue24177] Add https?_proxy support to http.client

Changes by Berker Peksag : -- nosy: +berker.peksag ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue24177] Add https?_proxy support to http.client

New submission from Demian Brecht: http_proxy and https_proxy are common environment variables used cross platform. Currently, urllib.request has support for it, but http.client does not. It probably should. If support is added to http.client, the handling of proxy environment variables in