upload.py doesn't work behind a proxy

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Use upload.py behind a proxy

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
upload.py throws exceptions
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\pikachu\testcaseeditorworkspace\com.googlecode.fiteditor\upload.py
",
line 1387, in <module>
    main()

File "C:\pikachu\testcaseeditorworkspace\com.googlecode.fiteditor\upload.py
",
line 1379, in main
    RealMain(sys.argv)

File "C:\pikachu\testcaseeditorworkspace\com.googlecode.fiteditor\upload.py
",
line 1347, in RealMain
    response_body = rpc_server.Send("/upload", body, content_type=ctype)

File "C:\pikachu\testcaseeditorworkspace\com.googlecode.fiteditor\upload.py
",
line 311, in Send
    self._Authenticate()

File "C:\pikachu\testcaseeditorworkspace\com.googlecode.fiteditor\upload.py
",
line 349, in _Authenticate
    super(HttpRpcServer, self)._Authenticate()

File "C:\pikachu\testcaseeditorworkspace\com.googlecode.fiteditor\upload.py
",
line 257, in _Authenticate
    auth_token = self._GetAuthToken(credentials[0], credentials[1])

File "C:\pikachu\testcaseeditorworkspace\com.googlecode.fiteditor\upload.py
",
line 201, in _GetAuthToken
    response = self.opener.open(req)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 381, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 399, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 360, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 1115, in https_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 1082, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (10061, 'Connection refused')>

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Python 2.5

Please provide any additional information below.
I beleve this is the issue comes from python urlib2. Please take a look at 
http://bugs.python.org/issue1424152

Original issue reported on code.google.com by topikachu on 11 May 2009 at 10:12

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Have you seen this thread:
http://groups.google.de/group/codereview-discuss/browse_thread/thread/a8d1d2db79
387b72/6feebbe896bc96ae

Someone reported a similar problem there, but we couldn't figure out a working
solution. Maybe it works for you...

Original comment by albrecht.andi on 11 May 2009 at 10:23

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Not a solution, but you can use proxychains as a workaround...

http://proxychains.sourceforge.net/

Original comment by matt.fowles on 15 Mar 2010 at 6:38

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upload.py respects HTTP_PROXY environment variable, as such this issue should 
be closed.

Original comment by maruel@chromium.org on 30 Sep 2010 at 4:29

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We still need to document how to work through the proxy, because it's not 
evident.

Original comment by techtonik@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2010 at 5:31

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Isn't it up to the environment/OS settings to provide a proper proxy 
configuration? See how ProxyHandler gets those settings: 
http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html#urllib2.ProxyHandler 

Original comment by albrecht.andi on 30 Sep 2010 at 8:08

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No problem, but we need at least mention somewhere that upload.py uses system 
proxy configuration, so that this information is searchable when this issue is 
closed.

Original comment by techtonik@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2010 at 9:32

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I've added a FAQ page in the wiki. Let's collect such things there before 
bloating upload.py --help. We can move it the a more prominent place at any 
time :)

Original comment by albrecht.andi on 1 Oct 2010 at 9:45

• Changed state: Fixed