tries to use https post with proxy

[Brian J. Murrell]

Binary package hint: apport

In my environment, I have a proxy server I have to go through to access the Internet. Apport has been able to deal with that up until recently. Now it seems that apport is trying to do https POST requests through the proxy to upload "blob"s. Squid does not support such requests as it does not SSL handshaking of it's own. Typically when an application wants to make an SSL connection to a remote host it uses the proxy "CONNECT" method.

Can apport be fixed to use CONNECT rather than https POST through proxies?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This would need to get fixed in Python's urllib2 module.

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

OK. So will it be? Does this need to go upstream somewhere?

I don't see any comment from any python2.5 maintainer after this bug was switched to that package.

But as I said in my original posting, this used to work through my proxy. What was changed to make it not work?

I have been getting a lot of very repeatable crashes here and would love to help ubuntu by reporting them but cannot if i cannot submit apport reports.