URLError: <urlopen error timed out> Proxy Problem

[Andrew Manson (real_ate)]

Hi,

I am making a presumption that this bug has something related to proxy, or more specifically an authenticated proxy.

What the error message is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
URLError: <urlopen error timed out>
Connection is down. Pretending we succeeded in logging in.

After doing a bit of testing myself and a lot of research I have narrowed down the problem to the fact that urllib2 cannot actually make https connections through a http proxy, some problem with the CONNECT call. I wrote a little test program that first *successfully* connected through the proxy to a http:// site and then I changed it to do a simple get of https://api.rescuetime.com/api/handshake and it timed out.

I would like to know what your opinion of the following two solutions are, they seem to have a lot of links to them from lots of user forums. I don't actually know anything about python so I can't really evaluate their effect on your code, after all I did just learn today so I could fix this bug ;)

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/456195/
http://msnp.sourceforge.net/tmp/eb0kGb/net.py

I can put a little more time into testing these if you can tell me if its worth doing.

Thank you

[Budiwijaya (budiwijaya)]

From my stand point of view, It's worth.
Personally I'm want to use this application, but I'm having difficulties with proxy.

I'm testing on ubuntu 9.04.

after I export http_proxy and https_proxy, I tested with wget. wget connect to internet with proxy, so I guess the http_proxy setting is OK.
then I tried to execute rescutime_linux_uploader, fill the username and password, then check the connection with netstat,
I see a python program tried to connect to a https port,

--snip--
tcp 0 1 192.168.25.5:57010 64.34.167.26:443 SYN_SENT 9538/python
--snip--

here's my http_proxy and https_proxy:

budiw@carbon:~$ export | grep http
declare -x http_proxy="http://proxy.example.co.id:8080/"
declare -x https_proxy="https://proxy.example.co.id:8080/"

I replace my office domain with example.

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Thank you.