Backporting the changes made in revision 72880 as fix for Issue1424152.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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Library
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+- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
+ proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
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- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
descriptor errors