Comment 7 for bug 745634

Ok, I see. To solve this we need to monitor for http proxy setting changes, as urllib2 does not do that.
I made a patch, that reads and monitors gconf http proxy settings and it installs a ProxyHandler opener in urllib2.
It requires python-gconf as dependency though.
It seems to work on my side; all requests (including pywapi ) appear on the proxy logs
It would be great if you can apply the patch and report if it works.