proxy support: degrade gracefully when socket.socket is unavailable

This should allow httplib2 to continue to work even on platforms like
appengine where the socket module exists but has no socket attribute.

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/python2/httplib2/test/test_no_socket.py b/python2/httplib2/test/test_no_socket.py
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+"""Tests for httplib2 when the socket module is missing.
+
+This helps ensure compatibility with environments such as AppEngine.
+"""
+import os
+import sys
+import unittest
+
+import httplib2
+
+class MissingSocketTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self._oldsocks = httplib2.socks
+        httplib2.socks = None
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        httplib2.socks = self._oldsocks
+
+    def testProxyDisabled(self):
+        proxy_info = httplib2.ProxyInfo('blah',
+                                        'localhost', 0)
+        client = httplib2.Http(proxy_info=proxy_info)
+        self.assertRaises(httplib2.ProxiesUnavailableError,
+                          client.request, 'http://localhost:-1/')