[Yum-devel] [UG] proxy support

[seth vidal]

>  2) urllib2 under python 2.2 is a bit broken, and the upshot is that
>     if you tried to do ftp or non-keepalive http through a proxy, it
>     just never worked.  It always tried to connect normally.  I've
>     now worked around this in urlgrabber.
>
>These are significant bugfixes, and so I'll probably push a new
>version in the next few days.  Ryan, perhaps you could take a look at
>that zero-range issue related to Seth's request for modification-time
>based stuff.  I noticed poking around that I didn't actually make FTP
>support check_timestamp mode for reget, but it falls back to
>reget=None mode.

Sounds good and does explain a few odd proxy-related issues.
proxy heisenbugs are deep weird.

Any idea when y'all are thinking about heading into a beta release?

-sv