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  r76908 | senthil.kumaran | 2009-12-20 11:35:13 +0530 (Sun, 20 Dec 2009) | 4 lines

  Fix for issue 7291 - urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth
  Refactored HTTPHandler tests and added testcase for proxy authorization.
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+- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
+  Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
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 - Issue #7348: StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1) now acts as if it got no argument
   like other file objects.