Comment 39 for bug 446552

karmic -> lucid path is still broken, since only jaunty and lucid versions were "fixed".

Also, the *proper* fix is to use urllib2 instead of that manual code in current lucid version. The "urllib2 doesn' support proxy auth" is poor excuse. urrlib2 should be fixed in python instead of working it around in applications using python... Not doing it properly gives a poor user experience as some python apps work with proxy, some not, others work with auth proxy and some not...