[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 56499] New: webkit-patch does not support HTTPS proxies due to old version of Mechanize

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56499

           Summary: webkit-patch does not support HTTPS proxies due to old
                    version of Mechanize
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Tools / Tests
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: keith.kyzivat at nokia.com
                CC: laszlo.1.gombos at nokia.com, benjamin at webkit.org


webkit-patch currently does not support HTTPS proxies.  Many companies use proxies to access the public internet, and this is needed in order to be able to use webkit-patch.

This is due to a limitation in the older version of mechanize that we use.
Mechanize supports HTTPS proxies in newer versions of Mechanize, and I have determined that version 0.2.4 works fine with webkit-patch upload (I have not tested more than that).

Here is a post from the author of mechanize indicating that HTTPS proxy support was present in his git repo as of 31-Jan-2010, and it's been a year since then, and 5 releases since 0.1.11.
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.wwwsearch.general/month=20100201
http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/mechanize/

I would like to see the webkit scripts update to use mechanize 0.2.4 if possible.

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