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Hey, I've noticed this repository and a few other branches of the original SocksiPy floating around Github for the past few years. Some dead, some with various additions and changes made.

I have my own branch, which I have renamed to "PySocks" (partially to distinguish it from the original and partially because I think it sounds a little better): https://github.com/Anorov/PySocks

I've fixed a few bugs that are present in a lot of the current branches around, and I've also overhauled the coding style to make it much more Pythonic. In the process, I believe there'll be some slight speed upgrades and much clearer exception output. It fully supports both Python 2 and 3. I've also added some fairly rudimentary tests, which I plan to improve later.

This branch is currently in the process of being integrated into the urllib3 library, and shortly thereafter will be accessible to the requests library, so that SOCKS proxies will be an option when starting a requests session.

I think it would be cool if people still interested in working on this library could all work on a central project. What are your thoughts on the matter?

httplib2 took a patch to add a new proxy type, HTTP_NO_TUNNEL in https://code.google.com/p/httplib2/issues/detail?id=38. Basically this allows you to specify that you want to use an HTTP proxy, but you do not want to use the CONNECT method for connecting to https://