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Send mail with smtplib using proxy

I have a very basic piece of Python code:
import smtplib
server = smtplib.SMTP(host, port)
problems = server.sendmail(from_addr, to_addr, message)
Is there solution to run it behind an HTTP proxy? I am using Python 3.4.1 on Linux with the http_proxy variable set.
Now I am getting a timeout from SMTP, but if I run this code from a proxy-free network, it works OK.

Is there solution to run it behind an HTTP proxy?
No, HTTP is a different protocol than SMTP and the proxy is for HTTP only. If you are very lucky you might be able to create a tunnel using the CONNECT command to the outside SMTP server, but usually the ports used for CONNECT are restricted so that you will not be able to create a tunnel to an outside host port 25 (i.e. SMTP).

In python : How to perform a HTTP request, and connect with a websocket, through the same connection?

I am trying to connect to a website through a program, whose authentification protocol appears to be the following :
Connect to the websocket.
Receive crucial data for logging in.
Make a HTTP request with username/password/some of the datas THROUGH THIS CONNECTION.
This means that if i open another connection, the data linked to this connection, according to the server, will be different.
For exemple, receiving the data through the websocket, and doing a HTTP request with a browser will not work, as the browser is another connection.
By connection, i mean what is created at the start of the program, for exemple :
ws2= websocket.create_connection("ws://sim.smogon.com:8000/showdown/websocket") for the websocket module
h1 = httplib.HTTPConnection('www.cwi.nl') for the http module.
My problem is that i have to create 2 different connections to connect to websocket and make a http request. This means that the http request will not work with the websocket received data.
How to make these 2 connections the same ? Or, simplier said : how to solve the problem ?

Python urrlib2 using HTTPS proxy to request HTTPS ressource

when using Python 2.7s urllib2 I do not seem to be able to retrieve a resource from a HTTPS server while using a SSL secured proxy server, i.e. to following:
CLIENT ---- (HTTPS) ---> PROXY ---- (https) --- > SERVER
Of cause to get through the proxy server one uses CONNECT. Any ideas?
Alternative question: when using CONNECT one needs to setup a completly independent 2. SSL session inside the tunnel, right? How could one do that in python as simply calling ssl.wrap_socket does not do the trick...?

HTTP Connect request through a cascading proxy

I am creating a proxy server in python, which is based on BaseHTTPServer.
What it does is create a connection to a squid proxy, identifies the browser request(GET, CONNECT, POST etc) and adds a proxy-authorization header to it, and then forwards this request to the squid proxy.
Problem is, as I understand, when I send a connect request, I should relay all the corresponding traffic to the squid proxy. But, as I can see in wireshark, the squid proxy doesn't reply to the 'Client Hello' part of the handshake, which I think is due to squid proxy not understanding binary data of SSL that I am just forwarding to it.
How do I process HTTPS requests in this case?
The code is more or less similar to TinyHTTPProxy : http://www.oki-osk.jp/esc/python/proxy/

RFC 2817 defines the CONNECT method. It is different from other HTTP methods in that the receiving proxy (your Python proxy) is directed to establish a raw TCP tunnel directly to the destination host (called the authority in the RFC).
A proxy can make no assumptions about the data that will be sent over that tunnel; it will not necessarily be HTTP – the client can use the tunnel to speak any protocol it likes. Indeed, SSL ≠ HTTP.
You have two options:
Open a TCP connection directly to the requested destination host.
Make a CONNECT request to your upstream proxy (Squid). This is within spec:
It may be the case that the proxy itself can only reach the
requested origin server through another proxy. In this case, the
first proxy SHOULD make a CONNECT request of that next proxy,
requesting a tunnel to the authority. A proxy MUST NOT respond
with any 2xx status code unless it has either a direct or tunnel
connection established to the authority.
Make sure that your request includes the required Host header.
CONNECT www.google.com:443 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.google.com:443
Proxy-Authorization: ...
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urllib2: How to access a header from the SSL tunneling reply

I am using SSL tunneling with a proxy server to connect to a target server. I use http to connect to the proxy server and HTTPS to connect to the target server. The SSL tunneling works as it should and I can exchange HTTPS messages with the remote server, but there is a problem. The proxy server returns a header in its reply to urllib2's request to establish the SSL tunnel that I need to see, but I don't see a way to get access to it using urllib2 (Python 2.7.3).
I suppose I could theoretically implement the SSL tunneling handshake myself, but that would get me way deeper into the protocol than I want to be (or with which I feel comfortable).
Is there a way to get access to the reply using urllib2 when establishing the SSL tunnel?
UPDATE:
Here is the code that uses the proxy server to connect to the target server (the proxy server and the target server's URLs are not the actual ones):
proxy_handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'https': 'http://proxy.com'})
url_opener = urllib2.build_opener (proxy_handler)
request = urllib2.Request ('https://target_server.com/')
response = url_opener.open (request)
print response.headers.dict
I used WireShark to look at the message traffic. WireShark won't show me the bodies of the messages exchanged with the target server because they are encrypted, but I can see the body of the SSL Tunnel handshake. I can see the header that I'm interested coming back from the proxy server.

How are you calling the https page.
are you using
resp = urllib2.urlopen('https')
resp.info().headers