OpenSSLProxy module Provides HTTPS proxy support to httplib and urllib2 
classes.

 * 'OpenSSLProxy' is derived from httplib.HTTPS and provides HTTPS 
   proxy support
 * 'OpenSSLProxyHandler' is dervived from urllib2.HTTPSHandler and
   provides HTTPS proxy support
 * Support for Basic User Authentication
 * Honors environmental variable https_proxy

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