simplest useful HTTPS with basic proxy authentication « Python recipes « ActiveState Codesimplest useful HTTPS with basic proxy authentication (Python recipe) by John Nielsen This is just about the most simple snippet of how to do proxy authentication with SSL using python. The current httplib only supports ssl through a proxy _without_ authentication. This example does basic proxy auth that a lot of proxy servers can support. This will at least give someone an idea of how to do it an
