This is Isaac Salzberg's application of Mihai Ibanescu's patch (available on SF) that allows HTTPS tunneling through an authenticating proxy. This one's a double whammy: it works with IIS through the authenticating proxy, whereas the one on SF, which uses Python's built-in SSL, doesn't. This code is not folded into the main distribution because: 1. Apparently Mihai is still working on it. 2. Mihai uses Python's built-in SSL. Isaac patched it to use M2Crypto.SSL. The stuff is essentially #ifdef'ed code. 3. I don't have an authenticating proxy nor an IIS server to test against, so I can't clean up the code. Volunteers welcome. ;-) Thanks Isaac.