Working with Proxy Serrvers

[jmahmood]

The system does not work with corporate proxy servers; it hangs Sublime Text until I turn off the wifi (after which it says that the connection is unreachable).

I believe the issue is in the retrieve.py file; the issue may not be that easy to resolve, as it seems that urllib does not handle HTTPS proxies (which is necessary since all the links you have use HTTPS).

Adding the ability to set the proxy in the settings file would be a great first step though. You could then use the code below to set the proxy on the connection.

proxy_support = urllib.request.ProxyHandler({})
opener = urllib.request.build_opener(proxy_support)
urllib.request.install_opener(opener)

[Oblongmana]

Thank you for the report @jmahmood - I'm not likely to be able to work on this in the near future, but would definitely welcome a Pull Request from you if you have the time. Otherwise will try to pick this up in a few weeks.

I am planning on switching to the requests library soon, I believe it's generally considered superior to urllib and urllib2, which I'm inclined to believe given how easy it was to use the last time I played with it. Can be a bit of a pain including 3rd party libs in sublime plugins however. Dropping this link here for my future reference: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/#proxies