From 5d02c1c5b98492e93d32598afa32f8748f5c449b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Senthil Kumaran <senthil@python.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:39:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] gh-56689 test case to cover for windows proxy_bypass
 misbehaving with trailing ; entries on windows.

Issue was fixed in GH-115210

Co-Authored by Claude Code.
---
 Lib/test/test_urllib2.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index 7efbc81a16096a6..3e4fec6e3e84744 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -1625,6 +1625,14 @@ def test_winreg_proxy_bypass(self):
                             "expect <local> to bypass intranet address '%s'"
                             % host)
 
+        # empty entries (e.g. a trailing ';') must not match every host
+        for proxy_override in ("www.example.com;", ";", " ; ",
+                               "www.example.com;;*.example.net"):
+            self.assertFalse(proxy_bypass("www.python.org", proxy_override),
+                             "expected empty entry in %r not to bypass"
+                             % proxy_override)
+        self.assertTrue(proxy_bypass("www.example.com", "www.example.com;"))
+
     @unittest.skipUnless(sys.platform == 'darwin', "only relevant for OSX")
     def test_osx_proxy_bypass(self):
         bypass = {